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Southwest Research Institute won a $15,600,000 contract to design and build the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor for NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Lagrange 1 satellite.
NOAA awarded the cost-plus, fixed-fee contract on 2020-07-01 through NASA.
SWFO-L1 is designed to carry on the work of NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory launched in 2015.
NOAA’s SWFO-L1 satellite is scheduled to launch in 2024 as a rideshare on the NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe.
NOAA is awarding contracts to evaluate new instruments, spacecraft, business models, and mission concepts for the space-based architecture intended to succeed the Joint Polar Satellite System and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series.
L3Harris Technologies won four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contracts worth a combined $2,550,000 for design studies of weather satellites, instruments, and mission concepts.
L3Harris supplies the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) for NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series.
As of 2020-07-01, NOAA had awarded more than $13,500,000 to 15 companies for 25 design studies, according to beta.SAM.gov.
As of 2020-06-30, NOAA had awarded more than $13,500,000 to 15 companies for 25 studies listed on the U.S. government website beta.SAM.gov.
Ball Aerospace won four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contracts worth a combined $2,320,000 for weather satellite and instrument design studies.
NOAA is awarding a series of contracts to evaluate new instruments, spacecraft, business models, and mission concepts for the space-based architecture intended to succeed the Joint Polar Satellite System and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series.
Ball Aerospace built the NASA–NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, which launched in 2011.
Ball Aerospace won a contract on 2020-06-25 to build, integrate, and operate NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On satellite destined for Sun–Earth Lagrange Point 1.
The ASTRA contract is part of a series of NOAA contracts investigating instruments, spacecraft, business models, and mission concepts for the space-based architecture to succeed the Joint Polar Satellite System and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series.
ASTRA won a Small Business Innovation Research contract from NOAA in 2019 to design a cubesat instrument for observing clouds.
Spire CEO Peter Platzer considers the CWDP Round 2 report to be very good news for NOAA’s efforts to improve weather forecasts, for people dealing with weather uncertainty, for the commercial weather data industry broadly, and for Spire and GeoOptics specifically.
NOAA has previously acquired radio occultation data from government missions including the six-satellite Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-2 (COSMIC-2) launched in 2019.
NOAA solicited vendors for the first round of the Commercial Weather Data Pilot in 2016 and for a second round in 2018.
NOAA released a detailed Commercial Weather Data Pilot Round 2 Summary report on 2020-06-26.
In CWDP Round 2, NOAA awarded contracts to GeoOptics, Spire Global, and PlanetIQ.