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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration granted Umbra a license in 2018 to offer 25-centimeter resolution from satellites in a 515-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.
The NOAA SBIR Phase I research began in 2020 and expanded the potential sources of satellite imagery for the Alaskan coast.
L3Harris delivered the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument for NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) in January 2021.
L3Harris was selected in February 2021 to develop and deploy the ground system command and control for NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) program.
NOAA arranged the Argos-4 hosted payload launch through the Hosted Payload Solutions contract vehicle managed by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center.
The contract to launch the Argos-4 payload was awarded to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center under a Hosted Payload Solutions delivery order on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The U.S. Space Force does not operate and is not developing capabilities specifically to monitor climate change and will continue to work with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on weather surveillance needs.
Under the recent order, NOAA is directing GeoOptics to supply 1,300 daily radio occultation soundings from March to September.
In November 2020, NOAA placed a first order directing GeoOptics and Spire Global to each provide 500 daily radio occultation soundings for 30 days.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced plans on 19 February to dramatically expand the number of daily radio occultation soundings it acquires from commercial satellites operated by GeoOptics.
In November 2020, NOAA awarded two-year indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global with a combined ceiling of $23,000,000.
NOAA’s first delivery order directed GeoOptics and Spire Global each to provide 500 daily radio occultation soundings for 30 days.
A correction on 2021-02-19 noted that the latest NOAA delivery order calls for GeoOptics alone to supply 1,300 daily radio occultations.
NOAA awarded two-year indefinite delivery–indefinite quantity contracts in November to GeoOptics and Spire Global with a combined ceiling of $23,000,000.
Under the latest delivery order, NOAA is directing GeoOptics to supply 1,300 daily radio occultation soundings from March to September.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced plans on 2021-02-19 to dramatically expand the number of daily radio occultation soundings it acquires from commercial satellites operated by GeoOptics.
Woolpert expects the topo-bathy lidar technology to achieve bathymetric coverage to a depth of approximately 50 m, reducing the need for NOAA Ship Rainier to survey inshore of that depth.
Acquisition for the NOAA task order was scheduled to start in spring with data and imagery delivery planned for late 2021 or early 2022.
Woolpert was awarded a task order under NOAA’s Shoreline Mapping Services Contract to provide topographic and bathymetric lidar data and imagery for islands in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands chain.
The Space Weather Follow On-L1 mission is designed to provide imagery of solar wind and coronal mass ejections to NOAA’s National Weather Service Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.