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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The ACX instrument will be a hyperspectral ultraviolet through visible imaging spectrometer planned to fly on the NOAA GeoXO series of geostationary satellites.
NOAA’s GeoXO satellite system will advance Earth observation from geostationary orbit and supply information in support of weather, ocean, and climate operations in the United States.
NOAA funds, operates, and manages the GeoXO mission while NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland manages acquisition of the Phase A formulation contracts.
NOAA plans to operate GeoXO satellites over the Eastern and Western United States and an additional GeoXO satellite over the center of the United States.
Up until 2017, the Chesapeake Bay Program relied on 30-meter land cover data produced by the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Central Pacific Hurricane Center continuously monitors weather conditions using a network of satellites, land- and ocean-based sensors, and aircraft reconnaissance missions operated by NOAA and its partners.
NOAA plans to establish requirements based on the industry studies and award the ACX instrument implementation contract in 2024.
Ball Aerospace won a 2020 contract to build, integrate, and operate NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On satellite destined for Sun–Earth Lagrange Point 1.
Ball Aerospace built the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite launched in 2011.
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Raytheon Intelligence & Space will develop technologies for NOAA’s next generation of geostationary weather satellites under contracts announced 2022-05-17.
NASA awarded firm-fixed-price contracts to support definition-phase work on NOAA’s GeoXO Atmospheric Composition instrument.
NOAA launched the GOES-18 satellite in March and GOES-18 will be used to track and forecast tropical cyclones and other storms in the Pacific Ocean.
The completed GOES-R series will create a worldwide constellation of seven Advanced Baseline Imager–class geostationary instruments: four for NOAA, two for Japan, and one for South Korea.
L3Harris is completing imager and sounder concept designs for NOAA’s next-generation geostationary satellite mission GeoXO.
Momentus received license updates from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to use the onboard cameras of the Vigoride spacecraft.
NOAA issued a Broad Agency Announcement seeking information on a digital twin system for Earth observations using artificial intelligence.
Tomorrow.io is part of the Raytheon Intelligence & Space team that won a $45,000,000 contract in 2024 to design and develop NOAA’s Earth Prediction Innovation Center program.
NOAA’s current ground system architecture acquires data from satellite sensors operated by NOAA and its international partners.
Two of NOAA’s 2022-04-29 Broad Agency Announcements focus on satellite sensors: one for measuring atmospheric winds in three dimensions and one for hyperspectral microwave remote sensing observations.
NOAA requested $490,000,000 for the GeoXO program of geostationary weather satellites but received $150,000,000.