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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When obtaining data from geostationary orbit, NOAA will consider European and Asian satellite constellations to combine instruments and observations.
NOAA launched the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (originally NPOESS Preparatory Project) in 2011 and Ball Aerospace built the first JPSS satellite that launched in 2017.
The White House budget blueprint released 2021-04-09 requests $6,900,000,000 for NOAA, more than $1,400,000,000 above the agency’s 2021 budget.
NOAA plans to include an instrument similar to GeoCarb on its next generation of geostationary weather satellites scheduled to begin launching in the early 2030s.
The Biden budget blueprint calls for adding $1,400,000,000 to NOAA's 2022 budget to expand climate observation and forecasting work and provide better data to decisionmakers.
TCarta Marine supplied the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with satellite-derived bathymetry validated by green laser altimeter data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite for two U.S. shallow-water coastal areas.
NOAA is working on the GOES-R series of geostationary weather satellites and the Joint Polar Satellite System series of polar orbiting satellites while starting to plan a future generation of weather satellites.
From 2003 to 2010 Rick Spinrad was head of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.
NOAA would receive an increase of about $500,000,000 in the fiscal year 2022 budget proposal to accelerate work on a new generation of weather satellites.
The first GEO-XO satellite is expected to launch in the early 2030s before NOAA retires the GOES-R Series satellites.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space builds sensors for low Earth and geostationary orbit, including the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite for NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System.
Through the GEO-XO program, NOAA seeks to obtain additional spectral channels and improved data compression to improve timeliness and accuracy of weather, ocean, and climate data.
The White House proposed increasing funding for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellite programs by $500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 in fiscal year 2022.
L3Harris Technologies will develop an imager design and conduct technology development and analysis for NOAA’s Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GEO-XO) satellite system.
NOAA uses a 1901–2000 baseline period and does not infer temperatures in polar regions lacking observations, unlike NASA’s approach.
NOAA assessed that, at the time of its 2021-03-19 notification, the debris from NOAA-17 posed little threat to the International Space Station or to other critical space assets.
NOAA-17 was designed to operate for three years but served in a primary or backup role for nearly 11 years until NOAA decommissioned it in April 2013.
NOAA-17 was originally designated NOAA-M and launched in June 2002.
When NOAA decommissioned NOAA-17 in 2013, NOAA performed a deactivation process that included disconnecting the spacecraft batteries, opening thruster valves, and turning off its transmitters.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration granted Umbra a license in 2018 to offer 25-centimeter resolution from satellites in 515-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.