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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NOAA awarded a five-year, cost-plus contract to L3Harris to develop, deploy, and operate a command and control system for the Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 observatory.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $43,800,000 space weather contract to L3 Harris Technologies.
Melbourne, Florida-based L3Harris will develop, deploy, and operate a command and control system for NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 observatory.
L3Harris plans to perform work at its Melbourne, Florida headquarters and to install equipment at NOAA’s Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland; NOAA’s Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station in Wallops, Virginia; and NOAA’s Consolidated Backup Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia.
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.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Umbra a license in 2018 to sell 25-centimeter resolution imagery commercially from a satellite constellation in a 515-kilometer circular sun-synchronous orbit.
The USGS is funding the Woolpert task order with interagency cooperation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office for Coastal Management.
NOAA plans a system requirements review for Geo-XO in 2022, a preliminary design review in 2025, a critical design review in 2027, and an initial Geo-XO launch in 2032.
The overall lifecycle cost of the Geo-XO constellation, after accounting for inflation, is likely to be similar to the $12,000,000,000 NOAA will spend on the entire GOES-R program from 2001 to final operations scheduled for 2035.
NOAA is awarding a series of study contracts to explore potential instruments, spacecraft, business models, and mission concepts as the agency looks beyond the Joint Polar Satellite System and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series.
BAE Systems completed a six-month $376,000 study in October for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration exploring mounting infrared sensors on microsatellites to gather weather data in the troposphere and stratosphere.
NOAA awarded initial task orders to both GeoOptics and Spire Global on 2020-11-20, and the individual values of those orders remain undisclosed.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded its first contracts on 2020-11-20 to GeoOptics and Spire Global to purchase radio occultation data.
EUMETSAT will work with ESA, NASA, NOAA, CNES, and scientists from Europe and the United States to calibrate Sentinel-6 products and validate the end-to-end system.
A significant portion of NOAA’s targeted radio occultation data is likely to come from the six satellites that make up the second U.S.-Taiwan COSMIC constellation launched in 2019.
NOAA awarded initial task orders to GeoOptics and Spire Global on 2020-11-20 and did not disclose the value of those task orders.
NOAA awarded two-year indefinite delivery–indefinite quantity contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global with a total ceiling of $23,000,000.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded contracts on 2020-11-20 to purchase radio occultation data from GeoOptics and Spire Global.
Since 2016, NOAA has evaluated radio occultation data provided by private companies through the Commercial Weather Data Pilot.
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is the first of two satellites jointly developed by NASA, NOAA, the European Space Agency, Eumetsat, and the European Commission to provide precise measurements of rising sea levels.