The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a U.S. government agency focused on science-based services and environmental intelligence. Within the space industry, NOAA plays a vital role in monitoring and forecasting space weather through its Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). NOAA operates a network of satellites, including the GOES and DSCOVR, to track solar activity and its potential impacts on Earth, providing alerts and warnings to various sectors like satellite operations, power grids, and communication systems. NOAA collaborates with NASA and commercial partners on space weather programs like the Space Weather Next program, ensuring continuous space-based observations.
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Since 2020, NOAA has been purchasing radio occultation data from GeoOptics and Spire to improve terrestrial weather forecasts.
NOAA began soliciting vendors in the first round of the Commercial Weather Data Pilot in 2016.
NOAA will evaluate data supplied by GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire over approximately 12 months.
Congress prompted NOAA to establish a commercial space weather data pilot program in the PROSWIFT Act enacted in 2020.
ATLAS Space Operations will provide Ground Station as a Service capabilities to NOAA using ATLAS’ Freedom software and its Global Antenna Network.
ATLAS Space Operations has completed 52,000 ground-station passes for NOAA with greater than 98% availability.
ATLAS Space Operations first contracted with NOAA for Freedom software and ground station services more than five years ago.
ATLAS Space Operations has supported NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service missions since 2017.
Lockheed Martin produced the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and the Solar Ultraviolet Imager instruments on NOAA’s GOES-R weather satellites.
Xplore Inc. completed a satellite testing initiative using Microsoft Azure Orbital to conduct satellite operations for NOAA’s NOAA-18 satellite.
NOAA obtained data downlinked from the 17-year-old NOAA-18 satellite through an Azure Orbital ground station in Quincy, Washington to the Azure cloud during a proof-of-concept demonstration.
In April, NOAA sought information from contractors interested in providing engineering and information-technology services and handling flight operations for polar-orbiting satellites NOAA-15, NOAA-18, and NOAA-19.
Momentus conducted months of work to implement a National Security Agreement overseen by the Department of Defense and the Department of the Treasury and worked with the FAA, FCC, and NOAA to obtain necessary government licenses, determinations, and approvals to conduct the Vigoride flight.
The GLIDE spacecraft will launch with NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 spacecraft that was built by Ball Aerospace and is powered by Rocket Lab components.
On 2022-06-07, the United States, represented by NOAA, formally joined the Space Climate Observatory, a French-led effort to share satellite data to monitor climate change.
Niklas Nienass met with officials at NASA, NOAA, and the White House during his tour in Washington.
NOAA will establish requirements for the OCX instrument implementation contract based on the industry studies and plans to award the implementation contract in 2024.
NASA awarded contracts on 2022-05-26 to Ball Aerospace and Raytheon Intelligence & Space to begin developing ocean color sensors for NOAA’s next-generation geostationary weather satellites.
NOAA plans to operate three GeoXO satellites beginning in the early 2030s, with two positioned over the Eastern and Western United States and a third over the central United States.
The newly launched ICEYE US satellites are licensed by NOAA and will be operated and controlled exclusively from ICEYE US’s 24/7 Mission Operations Center in Irvine, California.