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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The 2020 NOAA budget request included funding to purchase commercial weather data.
GOES-16 and GOES-17 provide two next-generation geostationary satellites with comparable performance for NOAA.
NOAA, working with industry and international partners, mitigated problems with GOES-17’s Advanced Baseline Imager and obtained 97 percent of the data originally sought.
NOAA launched GOES-17 in 2018.
In North and South America, 28,000 sensors send data to NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Data Collection System in the 401 MHz band.
NOAA plans to launch JPSS-2 in 2023, JPSS-3 in 2026, and JPSS-4 in 2031.
NOAA's 2020 budget proposal includes $12,300,000 to test and evaluate innovative space-based solutions and partnerships in the polar and geostationary orbits, $3,000,000 to purchase weather data from commercial companies, and $5,000,000 to purchase data after successful testing.
NOAA currently funds JPSS-1 and JPSS-2 through its Joint Polar Satellite System program.
As of 2019-03-27, NOAA had not released its 2020 budget justification document or Blue Book.
Congress did not sanction the merger of the JPSS and Polar Follow-on programs in its 2019 budget report and requested that NOAA provide a revised proposal identifying the cost and programmatic efficiencies from combining these programs along with its 2020 budget request.
The 2020 budget blueprint includes nearly $218,000,000 for the NOAA Satellite Observing System Architecture Study to plan for the generation of operational satellites beyond Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite‑R and the Joint Polar Satellite System.
NOAA launched the first spacecraft of the Joint Polar Satellite System, NOAA-20, in November 2017 and declared NOAA-20 operational in May 2018.
NOAA launched the first two satellites in its latest generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites in November 2017 and March 2018, and both satellites are now operational covering much of North and South America and the surrounding oceans.
NOAA is preparing to launch six Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-2 (COSMIC-2) radio occultation satellites in 2019 in a joint program with Taiwan.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Defense have established and implemented plans to mitigate potential gaps in weather satellite data.
NOAA launched the first Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft, now called NOAA-20, in late 2017.
Steven Volz, assistant administrator for satellite and information services, thanked NOAA staff for their work leading to the successful launch of NOAA-20 and two next-generation geostationary orbit satellites.
NOAA launched Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-17 (GOES-17) in 2018 with four space weather instruments.
NOAA is seeking funding to install a Naval Research Laboratory compact coronagraph on GOES-U, which is set to launch in 2024.
NOAA launched Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) in 2016 with four space weather instruments.