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.
All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
The 2016 Commercial Weather Data Pilot culminated in June with a report concluding that the commercial sector is capable of providing the quality of data needed to help support NOAA’s operational weather forecasting needs.
NOAA invited companies to submit proposals within 30 days of 2020-08-04 to offer radio occultation data under two-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity orders.
NOAA published specifications on 2020-08-04 for the first radio occultation data delivery order calling for companies to deliver 500 daily radio occultation soundings for 30 consecutive days.
General Atomics won a $37,900,000 contract in 2018 to fly NOAA’s Argos Advanced Data Collection System on the third Orbital Test Bed.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems won a $37,900,000 contract in 2018 to fly the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Argos Advanced Data Collection System on the third Orbital Test Bed.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will reduce the resolution limit on satellite imagery of Israel from 2 m to 0.4 m.
NOAA found little evidence of foreign systems providing imagery of Israel at resolutions sharper than 0.4 m.
Since 1998 NOAA has interpreted the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment to mean images of Israel with a resolution no sharper than 2 m, a limit reviewed and upheld by NOAA in 2018.
The bill includes $1,800,000 for the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA) office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The bill includes $1,800,000 for the Office of Space Commerce within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The bill provides an additional $2,678,000 for purchasing commercial satellite weather data compared with last year's bill, while NOAA had sought a $5,000,000 increase for that program in its proposal.
UCAR is responsible for processing and disseminating COSMIC-2 data and is required to deliver COSMIC-2 observations to NOAA forecasters within 45 minutes.
NOAA upgraded its Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting computer model for the 2020 hurricane season to ingest data from GOES-16 and GOES-17 as well as NOAA-20, Suomi NPP, Himawari-8, Metop spacecraft, and COSMIC-2.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center forecast six to 10 hurricanes with winds of at least 119 km per hour for the 2020 season, which runs from 2020-06-01 through 2020-11-30.
NOAA forecasters predicting an active 2020 hurricane season are refining storm track and intensity forecasts using data from multiple satellites including COSMIC-2.
SWFO-L1 is designed to carry on the work of NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory launched in 2015.
Southwest Research Institute won a $15,600,000 contract to design and build the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor for NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Lagrange 1 satellite.
NOAA awarded the cost-plus, fixed-fee contract on 2020-07-01 through NASA.
NOAA’s SWFO-L1 satellite is scheduled to launch in 2024 as a rideshare on the NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe.
As of 2020-07-01, NOAA had awarded more than $13,500,000 to 15 companies for 25 design studies, according to beta.SAM.gov.