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 contracts valued at a little more than $1,000,000 in September 2016 to GeoOptics and Spire in round one of the Commercial Weather Data Pilot program.
NOAA issued contracts to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire to provide GPS radio occultation weather data from satellites currently in orbit or planned for launch in the coming months.
Spire provided data to NOAA under the program’s earlier contract and received $1,425,000 in round two.
GeoOptics received a $3,440,000 contract in round two of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot program.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded more than $8,000,000 in contracts on 2018-09-17 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire in the second round of its Commercial Weather Data Pilot program.
NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2015 with room to spare for 2,500 kg of payload.
NASA’s Rideshare office identified 16 NASA and NOAA missions scheduled to launch between 2020 and 2026 with room for ESPA rings.
James Morhard noted that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration operates polar and geostationary orbiting weather satellites.
NOAA’s Class 3 tier applies to systems with sensors that produce very sensitive data whose unauthorized dissemination would pose a clear and significant threat to national security or foreign policy and where loss of control of the space vehicle would produce significant hazards.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office plans to implement a tiered approach to evaluating company data-protection plans for satellites.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Capella a license to send two X-band SAR satellites into polar orbits between 450 and 600 km with a 97.5-degree inclination.
NOAA engineers had made some progress in restoring the performance of the Advanced Baseline Imager on the GOES-17 satellite as of 2019-07-24, but had not fully corrected the problem or determined its root cause.
The CJS spending bill includes $928 for NOAA’s polar weather satellite program and provides $50,000,000 above the administration’s request for that program.
The CJS spending bill includes $408,000,000 for NOAA’s GOES geostationary weather satellite program.
The first Joint Polar Satellite System weather satellite was renamed NOAA-20 after its 2018-11-18 launch.
NOAA anticipates launching JPSS-3 in 2026 and JPSS-4 in 2031, subject to change depending on the status of satellites in orbit.
XpressSar of Arlington, Virginia received a NOAA license in 2015 for four SAR satellites.
NOAA requested $408,400,000 for GOES in its fiscal year 2019 budget request.
NOAA requested $878,000,000 for JPSS in its fiscal year 2019 budget request, which includes funding for the Polar Follow-On program for the third and fourth JPSS satellites.
NOAA is seeking GPS radio occultation data from satellites to support weather forecasting models for the second round of the Commercial Weather Data Pilot.