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 no longer needs space weather data from GOES-14 because GOES-16 is generating more advanced space weather data and GOES-17 provides space weather data in a developmental system.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will power down the GOES-14 and GOES-15 spacecraft and place them into orbital storage by 2019-01-31.
The minibus encourages that the $1,100,000 cost of the independent study be split between NOAA and the Commerce Department’s management account.
The final spending bill provides $304,000,000 for NOAA’s GOES-R geostationary weather satellite program.
The appropriations bill rejected the Commerce Department’s proposal to merge the two offices and instead kept the Office of Space Commerce and CRSRA separate and located within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA’s new Systems/Services, Architecture and Engineering program includes $3,000,000 for additional commercial weather pilot programs and $5,000,000 to begin commercial purchase of GPS radio occultation data for weather forecasting.
The final spending bill provides $755,000,000 for NOAA’s Polar Weather Satellites program, combining the existing JPSS program with the Polar Follow-On initiative.
The 2019-10-31 minibus combined several measures including the commerce, justice and science (CJS) bill that funds NASA, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Umbra Lab a license in 2018 for a constellation to offer 25-centimeter resolution from satellites in 515-kilometer circular sun-synchronous orbit.
The Trump administration’s NASA budget requests for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 included no funding for EPIC, which did not affect the overall DSCOVR mission funded by NOAA.
NOAA weather satellites in geostationary orbit are equipped with space weather sensors.
NOAA was working with NASA and an unnamed company on a software fix to restore DSCOVR as of 2019-09-30.
NOAA uses DSCOVR to monitor space weather conditions from the Earth–sun L1 Lagrange point approximately 1.5 million kilometers from Earth toward the sun.
In early 2015 HySpecIQ obtained a license from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to operate HySpec-1 and HySpec-2 with electro-optical hyperspectral and panchromatic imaging sensors in a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit.
GOES-13 was decommissioned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2018.
NOAA moved GOES-13 to a slot at 60 degrees west in geostationary orbit to serve as a backup.
NOAA will operate GOES-13 on behalf of the U.S. Air Force during the satellite’s remaining life span once it reaches its new location and its instruments are checked out.
NOAA is transferring the decommissioned GOES-13 satellite to the U.S. Air Force to operate at a new orbital location.
Spire provides global organizations and national meteorology centers like NOAA with tools intended to improve weather forecasts for public safety.
The STP-2 mission launched on 2019-06-25 on a Falcon Heavy with 24 satellites aboard, including NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration payloads.