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NOAA requested $225,000,000 for the Space Weather Next program in 2024, an increase of $73,400,000 from $151,600,000 in 2023.
NOAA requested $342,400,000 in fiscal year 2024 for the Polar Weather Satellites program, which includes the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) series.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce received $70,000,000 of a requested $87,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 to fund work on space traffic management and the Traffic Coordination Space System (TraCSS) data repository.
NOAA plans to award a contract for a GeoXO sounder instrument later in 2024.
NOAA requested $276,000,000 for the GOES-R program in fiscal year 2024 as GOES-U is prepared for launch in April 2024.
NOAA requested $97,200,000 for the Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) program in 2024, a decrease from the $136,200,000 it received in 2023.
NOAA requested $88,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in 2024 to continue development of TraCSS with a goal of achieving initial operating capability by late 2024.
GeoXO is NOAA’s largest satellite program ever with an estimated total lifecycle cost of $19,600,000,000 covering development of six satellites and operations through the middle of the century.
NOAA requested 2024 funding that would allow it to award contracts for the remaining GeoXO instruments and the spacecraft themselves.
NOAA requested $133,600,000 for NEON in 2024, up from $96,400,000 received in 2023, to support work on a pathfinder mission called QuickSounder.
NOAA requested $653,800,000 for GeoXO in its 2023 budget request.
The Polar Weather Satellites program received $183,500,000 in 2023 after NOAA requested $350,200,000 for that year.
NOAA approved a modification to Maxar’s remote-sensing license allowing Maxar to use its Earth imaging satellites to image objects in space and sell those images commercially.
Spire Global has provided data to NOAA since 2016.
NOAA awarded Space Sciences and Engineering LLC dba PlanetiQ (Golden, Colorado) and Spire Global Subsidiary, Inc. (Vienna, Virginia) Radio Occultation Data Buy II (RODB-2) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts with a total, maximum value of $59,312,954 million shared between the IDIQ vendors.
Spire Global was awarded an IDIQ contract by NOAA to compete for orders under a $59,000,000 ceiling as part of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Program Radio Occultation Data Buy II.
Spire Global will provide NOAA with ionospheric measurements as part of its radio occultation data deliverables.
NOAA first began using commercial RO data in its operational weather forecasts on 2021-05-20.
Spire Global was awarded a total of four NOAA contracts in fiscal year 2022 valued at $23,600,000.
NOAA’s Commercial Data Program implements the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 (P.L. 115-25) by obtaining commercial weather data from private sector providers following pilot assessments.