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The JPSS fleet includes NOAA-20, launched in 2017.
Three months after NOAA-21 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, an instrument onboard NOAA-21 sent back its first science data.
The NOAA-21 first light image was generated using NOAA-21 Preliminary, Non-Operational Data.
On behalf of NOAA, NASA and commercial partners develop and build the JPSS instruments, spacecraft, and ground system, and launch the JPSS satellites.
H.R. 290 requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to review commercial remote sensing applications in 60 days rather than 120 days.
NOAA granted Xplore a remote sensing license for the company’s first mission to low Earth orbit scheduled to launch later 2023.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) launched the GAzelle satellite hosting NOAA’s Argos-4 and RadMon payloads.
The SARSAT Mission Control Center at NOAA’s Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland sends distress location information to Rescue Coordination Centers operated by the U.S. Air Force for land rescues and by the U.S. Coast Guard for water rescues.
NOAA polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites are part of the COSPAS-SARSAT global Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking system.
The subcontract awarded to Orbit Logic expands Orbit Logic’s ongoing work on the COTS-based Enterprise Automated Scheduling Implementation planning system for NOAA.
GeoXO is NOAA’s largest procurement in history with a $19,600,000,000 budget approved in December covering six satellites, operations, and support from 2022 to 2052.
NOAA plans to place both the hyperspectral infrared sounder and an atmospheric composition instrument on the central GeoXO satellite.
NOAA plans to launch the first GeoXO satellite in 2032 and the sounder-equipped satellite in 2035.
NOAA’s next generation of geostationary weather satellites (GeoXO) will include a hyperspectral infrared sounder to significantly improve weather forecasting.
The U.S. Air Force began collecting weather imagery in 2020 with the former GOES-13 satellite, which NOAA launched in 2006 and retired in 2018.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will send the Space Weather Follow-On built by Ball Aerospace to Lagrange Point 1 in 2024.
NOAA aims to mitigate the impact of interference or government sales on key areas of the agency’s radio frequency spectrum.
NOAA’s Space Weather Next program includes additional missions scheduled to launch in 2029, 2030, 2035, and 2037.
Michael Morgan, Commerce Department assistant secretary for environmental observation and prediction, leads NOAA’s effort to determine the agency’s spectrum requirements.
NOAA is considering alternative data sharing methods, such as using the internet instead of direct broadcast from meteorological satellites.