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NOAA is using SBIR awards like the MyRadar Phase II grant to build public/private partnerships that encourage innovation in technological advancements benefiting the American public.
True Anomaly received a NOAA license to operate Jackal 1 and Jackal 2 for commercial remote sensing in non-Earth imaging (NEI).
Raytheon completed its final review for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite system.
NOAA reduced the average time to review a license from 48 days in 2020 to 14 days in 2023.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration modified Tier 3 commercial remote sensing licenses on 2023-08-07.
PlanetiQ plans to launch more spacecraft in the next 18 months to expand global coverage and resolution to further support NOAA and international partners for weather forecasting and climate research.
Data from NOAA’s geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites are merged to create detailed and comprehensive flood zone maps.
PlanetiQ has started delivering radio occultation data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under a previously awarded contract.
The $8,000,000 task order was the first task order under a NOAA indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract awarded in March to PlanetiQ and Spire Global.
NOAA awarded contracts last year to GeoOptics, PlanetiQ, and Spire to provide space weather data as part of a pilot program to test the value of commercial observations.
PlanetiQ won an $8,000,000 task order to deliver daily weather data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration over six months.
NOAA’s geostationary satellite data of fine particulate pollution are being used in nowcasting mode to provide warnings to the public.
NOAA satellites provided data used by air quality forecasters when wildfires near Quebec, Canada, sent smoke plumes over the eastern United States in early June 2023.
NOAA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP satellites estimated that more than 17 million people in major cities such as New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. were breathing Very Unhealthy air during the early-June 2023 event.
NOAA used measurements of aerosol optical depth from VIIRS on NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP to estimate numbers of people exposed to PM2.5 by Air Quality Index level for 2023-06-03–10, 2023.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Act of 2023 would establish NOAA as an independent agency rather than as part of the Commerce Department.
NOAA was established by executive order in 1970 and has never been formally authorized by Congress.
NOAA projects spending $19,600,000,000 over the life of the six-satellite GeoXO program, extending to the middle of the century.
NOAA selected L3Harris in March to provide the imager instrument for GeoXO under a $765,500,000 contract.
Rick Spinrad, NOAA administrator, testified at a House Science Committee hearing on 2023-05-11 about NOAA’s budget proposal and emphasized that funding for GeoXO and other future satellite programs will ensure critical data continuity and add new capabilities.