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 Office of Space Commerce received $10,000,000 in fiscal year 2021 and NOAA’s 2022 budget request sought $10,000,000 for the office.
The omnibus bill provided $16,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce within NOAA.
NOAA unveiled a prototype of the OADR in February 2022 and plans to have the system operational in 2024.
Other NOAA weather satellite programs received all or nearly all of their requested funding, including $17,000,000 for commercial data purchases.
The omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2022, passed by the House late 2022-03-09, trimmed NOAA weather satellite development funding from the requested $1,680,000,000 to $1,290,000,000.
Momentus must obtain a Federal Communications Commission license, a Federal Aviation Administration payload review, and a slight modification to its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration imaging license to proceed with the June 2022 launch.
NOAA must provide the congressional committees a detailed spending plan for the Office of Space Commerce funds within 45 days of enactment and a five-year strategic plan for OSC within 90 days of enactment.
Four Northrop Grumman GEM 63 solid rocket boosters helped launch and deploy NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T (GOES-T) aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on 2022-03-02.
NASA’s Launch Services Program is managing the September launch of the Joint Polar Satellite System 2 spacecraft with NOAA from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
NASA and NOAA have started planning the next generation of geostationary orbit weather satellites called Geostationary Extended Operations (GeoXO).
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Xplore a $670,112 contract in 2020 to evaluate the feasibility of sending a commercial mission to L1 for early detection of solar events.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a request for information on 2022-02-16 seeking details about commercial data for tracking space objects.
L3Harris Technologies’ third high-resolution weather instrument is scheduled to launch on 2022-03-01 onboard a NOAA satellite.
The third Advanced Baseline Imager is onboard NOAA’s GOES-T satellite, which was scheduled to launch on 2022-03-01.
L3Harris Technologies built the fourth Advanced Baseline Imager and integrated it into NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U).
The NOAA IDIQ Delivery Order 4 award to Spire Global is valued at over $8,000,000.
The award increases the number of radio occultation profiles that Spire provides NOAA from 3,000 to 5,500.
The NOAA award to Spire supports NOAA’s goal to expand the purchase of commercial radio occultation data.
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) was awarded IDIQ Delivery Order 4 under a contract issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for commercially available space-based radio occultation data for use in operational weather forecasts.
MTP will partner with Space Launch Delta 45 to facilitate the safe launch of Department of Defense National Security Space, NASA, NOAA, commercial, and Naval missions.