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’s budget document stated that private industry has demonstrated capability and business models to provide civil operators with releasable Department of Defense catalog SSA data and STM services.
NOAA awarded a contract to Slingshot Aerospace last November to develop the TraCSS presentation layer, and a protest of that award halted work until the Government Accountability Office rejected the protest in March.
MetOp-SG-A1 is Europe's first contribution to the joint polar system with NOAA.
A Falcon 9 will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center carrying three heliophysics spacecraft for NASA and NOAA.
The NOAA passback document proposes moving the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) from NOAA to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The budget proposal includes major changes to NOAA's GeoXO line of next-generation weather satellites, suggesting cuts to between two to four of the five planned instruments.
Today, the Disasters Charter has 17 members, including agencies like NOAA in the USA and ESA.
Fred Gregory became NASA's deputy administrator, and Kathy Sullivan served as NOAA administrator after their time as astronauts.
NOAA is providing program requirements and funding for the Lagrange 1 Series project and is managing the program, operations, data products, and data dissemination.
NASA and its commercial partners will develop and build the instruments and spacecraft and provide launch services on behalf of NOAA for the Lagrange 1 Series project.
Southwest Research Institute will develop two magnetometers for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next program.
NASA selected Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio to build the Next-Generation Space Weather Magnetometer for the Lagrange 1 Series project on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Southwest Research Institute won a $26,100,000 contract to build a space weather instrument for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The magnetometer instruments will provide data to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
NASA and its commercial partners develop and build instruments and spacecraft and provide launch services on behalf of NOAA for the Lagrange 1 Series project.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $13,300,000 contract to build the TraCSS user interface.
NOAA expects TraCSS.gov, the system’s primary interface, to launch by late 2025.
Space Policy Directive-3, issued in 2018, directed NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce to assume space traffic coordination responsibilities from the Department of Defense.
Slingshot Aerospace was awarded a $5,300,000 contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce on 2024-11-26 to design the user experience for a next-generation space traffic coordination platform.
Southwest Research Institute will support the launch and provide ground support at NOAA’s Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland.