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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L3Harris Technologies won four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contracts worth a combined $2,550,000 for design studies of weather satellites, instruments, and mission concepts.
L3Harris supplies the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) for NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series.
NOAA is awarding contracts to evaluate new instruments, spacecraft, business models, and mission concepts for the space-based architecture intended to succeed the Joint Polar Satellite System and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series.
Ball Aerospace won four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contracts worth a combined $2,320,000 for weather satellite and instrument design studies.
Ball Aerospace built the NASA–NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, which launched in 2011.
Ball Aerospace won a contract on 2020-06-25 to build, integrate, and operate NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On satellite destined for Sun–Earth Lagrange Point 1.
As of 2020-06-30, NOAA had awarded more than $13,500,000 to 15 companies for 25 studies listed on the U.S. government website beta.SAM.gov.
NOAA is awarding a series of contracts to evaluate new instruments, spacecraft, business models, and mission concepts for the space-based architecture intended to succeed the Joint Polar Satellite System and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series.
NOAA awarded ASTRA a $599,885 contract in April for a six-month study called GEO-utilization of Common LEO Architecture for Weather (G-CLAW).
ASTRA won a Small Business Innovation Research contract from NOAA in 2019 to design a cubesat instrument for observing clouds.
G-CLAW is intended to meet NOAA requirements for gathering weather observations in both low Earth orbit and geostationary orbit using sensors on cubesats in low Earth orbit.
The ASTRA contract is part of a series of NOAA contracts investigating instruments, spacecraft, business models, and mission concepts for the space-based architecture to succeed the Joint Polar Satellite System and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series.
In CWDP Round 2, NOAA awarded contracts to GeoOptics, Spire Global, and PlanetIQ.
NOAA solicited vendors for the first round of the Commercial Weather Data Pilot in 2016 and for a second round in 2018.
Spire CEO Peter Platzer considers the CWDP Round 2 report to be very good news for NOAA’s efforts to improve weather forecasts, for people dealing with weather uncertainty, for the commercial weather data industry broadly, and for Spire and GeoOptics specifically.
NOAA has previously acquired radio occultation data from government missions including the six-satellite Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-2 (COSMIC-2) launched in 2019.
Ball Aerospace won a $96,900,000 contract on 2020-06-25 to build, integrate, and operate the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) satellite destined for Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1.
Congress provided $1,800,000 for NOAA’s CRSRA and $2,300,000 for the Office of Space Commerce instead of the requested $10,000,000 in the 2020 appropriations process.
The Commerce Department sought to combine the Office of Space Commerce with NOAA’s Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA) office in its 2020 budget proposal and requested $10,000,000 for the combined office.
NOAA awarded Xplore a contract on 2020-05-27 valued at $670,112 for a six-month study to evaluate the feasibility of sending a commercial mission to L1 to provide early detection of solar events threatening the power grid and telecommunications satellites.