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 $60,000 to Brandywine Photonics for a study contract.
NOAA awarded $575,000 to GeoMetWatch for a study contract.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded eight contracts with a combined total of nearly $4,500,000 to companies developing mission concepts, spacecraft, and instruments for a future Earth observation constellation on 2020-04-09.
NOAA is exploring options for launching a small satellite equipped with a microwave sounder, an infrared sounder, and possibly a radio occultation sounder as early as 2025.
NOAA awarded nearly $370,000 to York Space Systems for a study contract.
Maxar won the largest individual NOAA study contract worth nearly $1,000,000.
NOAA awarded nearly $850,000 to Leidos for a study contract.
The Orbital Test Bed mission carrying the CNES sensor for NOAA is scheduled to launch in 2021.
NOAA is focused on continuing to capture detailed imagery of the continental United States every 30 seconds in its future geostationary fleet, similar to the capability provided by the L3Harris Advanced Baseline Imager.
L3Harris received two of the eight NOAA study contracts for a total of nearly $1,250,000.
NOAA forecasters use satellite data at the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.
SWFO is scheduled for launch in 2024 and is designed to carry on the work of SOHO and NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory launched in 2015.
NOAA plans to send a second Compact Coronagraph into orbit in 2025 on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U.
NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) will carry a Compact Coronagraph when it launches in 2025.
The Space Network provides global 24-hour coverage for missions led by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other government agencies.
NOAA completed an arrangement on 2020-02-26 to fly NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) as a secondary payload on the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) 2 launch.
NOAA requested $108,100,000 in its fiscal year 2021 budget proposal for the Space Weather Follow-On L1 mission, up from $64,000,000 received in 2020.
William Murtagh, program coordinator for NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, testified to the Senate Commerce Committee on 2020-02-12 that losing key spacecraft would significantly impact NOAA’s ability to provide space weather services.
NOAA expected DSCOVR to resume operations in the first quarter of 2020 after implementing a software fix.
NOAA plans to place a coronagraph on the GOES-U geostationary weather satellite scheduled for launch in 2024.