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 is in the second round of its Commercial Weather Data Pilot program with contracts awarded in September 2018 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire.
The first round of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot, using contracts awarded in 2016 to GeoOptics and Spire, concluded that the data fell short of expectations.
In September, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded more than $8,000,000 to GeoOptics, PlanetiQ, and Spire to provide GPS radio occultation data from current or planned constellations.
Barry Myers was originally nominated to lead NOAA in October 2017.
Barry Myers committed to a complete separation between AccuWeather and NOAA during his November 2017 confirmation hearing.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center selected a 110-kilogram Orbital Test Bed to carry a sensor from the French space agency CNES on behalf of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Lockheed Martin finished assembling the GOES-T spacecraft in 2019 and was preparing it for environmental testing when NOAA directed the company to halt work due to ABI problems on GOES-17.
NOAA will not launch GOES-T in May 2020.
The Air Force plans to move a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) into a similar orbit to Meteosat 8 as a temporary fix.
During on-orbit checkout of GOES-17, NOAA discovered that ABI’s infrared channels were not working as designed because of cooling problems.
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act directed the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee to ask the Air Force Secretary for a plan by 2019-03-01 to acquire persistent weather imagery over Central Command without relying on foreign or legacy NOAA spacecraft.
NOAA’s session cancellations at AMS included sessions addressing efforts to resolve problems with the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-17 Advanced Baseline Imager.
NOAA-20 provides complementary observations from a mid-afternoon orbit as part of the data-sharing cooperation with Eumetsat.
Since acquiring the NOAA license, HyperSat has surveyed the market, conducted engineering studies, and developed its satellite bus and payload.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded HyperSat a license in 2016 to provide hyperspectral data to the U.S. government at four-meter resolution and to commercial customers at ten-meter resolution.
NOAA plans to put GOES-17 into operational service late in 2018 at the GOES-West orbital slot at 135 degrees west.
NOAA obtained imagery from all 16 ABI channels on 2018-08-08 after adjustments in operating procedures.
NASA and NOAA established a mishap investigation board to probe an anomaly with the Advanced Baseline Imager instrument on the GOES-17 weather satellite launched in March 2018.
NOAA first identified a problem with the Advanced Baseline Imager on GOES-17 on 2018-05-23.
NOAA plans to complete its assessment of the data received from the Commercial Weather Data Pilot round-two contracts and produce a final report by spring 2020.