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 sought about $25,000,000 for the Solar Weather Follow-On mission in its fiscal year 2020 budget request.
The fiscal year 2021 budget proposal seeks to combine the Office of Space Commerce with the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office and move the combined office from NOAA to directly under the Secretary of Commerce.
As director of the Space Test Program, D. Jason Cothern led the Rocket Systems Launch Program and was mission director for the Department of Defense’s first SpaceX Falcon 9 launch that deployed the NASA and NOAA DSCOVR satellite in February 2015.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration canceled plans to buy commercial weather satellite data.
The 2013 decadal survey provided guidance for NASA’s heliophysics program and space science work at the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA wants to increase the number of GPS radio occultation soundings it uses from about 2,000 per day to 20,000 per day.
The White House announced on 2019-12-18 its intent to nominate Neil Jacobs to be NOAA administrator following Barry Myers’ withdrawal.
Under current plans, Spire may be able to obtain NOAA’s 20,000 daily radio occultations goal by the end of 2020.
NOAA awarded contracts in 2018 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire as part of its second Commercial Weather Data Pilot.
PlanetIQ has raised $18,700,000 and holds contracts from NOAA and the U.S. Air Force.
NOAA is requesting $23,000,000 in 2021 and $33,000,000 per year from 2022 through 2024 for commercial data pilots and commercial data purchases.
NOAA is preparing to send a second Compact Coronagraph into orbit in 2025 on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U).
SWFO is designed to carry on work performed by NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory launched in 2015 and the joint European Space Agency–NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory launched in 1995.
The Commerce Department authorized NOAA in 2019 to begin procuring elements of the SWFO program.
The U.S. Air Force is moving a retired National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration geostationary weather satellite into orbit over the Indian Ocean.
The retired NOAA geostationary weather satellite previously known as Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-13 has been renamed Department of Defense-1.
Congress provided NOAA funding in the 2020 budget for the Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) satellite destined for Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1.
NOAA plans to send commands to the SWFO mission in S-band and to downlink SWFO science data in X-band.
PROSWIFT directs the National Science and Technology Council to establish an interagency working group on space weather that includes NOAA, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and the Department of the Interior.
Representative Frank Lucas’ amendment to PROSWIFT permits NOAA to establish a pilot program to award contracts to commercial space weather companies and does not direct NOAA to establish the program.