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NOAA uses DSCOVR to monitor space weather conditions from the Earth–sun L1 Lagrange point approximately 1.5 million kilometers from Earth toward the sun.
NOAA weather satellites in geostationary orbit are equipped with space weather sensors.
In early 2015 HySpecIQ obtained a license from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to operate HySpec-1 and HySpec-2 with electro-optical hyperspectral and panchromatic imaging sensors in a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit.
GOES-13 was decommissioned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2018.
NOAA moved GOES-13 to a slot at 60 degrees west in geostationary orbit to serve as a backup.
NOAA is transferring the decommissioned GOES-13 satellite to the U.S. Air Force to operate at a new orbital location.
NOAA will operate GOES-13 on behalf of the U.S. Air Force during the satellite’s remaining life span once it reaches its new location and its instruments are checked out.
Spire provides global organizations and national meteorology centers like NOAA with tools intended to improve weather forecasts for public safety.
The STP-2 mission launched on 2019-06-25 on a Falcon Heavy with 24 satellites aboard, including NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration payloads.
The BAAs will request information on technology and cost related to instruments and missions identified as promising in the NOAA Satellite Observing System Architecture study completed in 2017.
NOAA plans to release a separate Broad Agency Announcement focused on geostationary orbit.
The NOAA Satellite Observing System Architecture study completed in 2017 is an extensive quantitative analysis aimed at creating a capable, affordable, and resilient space-based architecture.
NOAA expects to need new geostationary observation tools around 2030 and is focusing largely on weather imagery while also seeking space weather data.
NOAA considers GOES-17 to provide faster, more accurate, and more detailed observations than previous generations of geostationary orbit weather satellites.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used the Hosted Payload Solutions contract vehicle to award General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems a $37,900,000 contract to install the Argos Advanced Data Collection System on an Orbital Test Bed satellite.
PlanetiQ received a $3,500,000 contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as part of a commercial weather data pilot program.
The Trump administration proposed terminating EPIC operations by including no funding for EPIC in NASA’s fiscal year 2018 and 2019 budget requests, while those proposals did not affect the overall DSCOVR mission funded by NOAA.
The STP-2 payload includes six COSMIC-2 satellites developed by NOAA and Taiwan’s National Space Organization to collect GPS radio occultation data for weather forecasting.
The House bill retained the Office of Space Commerce and the Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs as separate entities within NOAA and funded each office at $1,800,000.
The Commerce Department’s fiscal year 2020 budget request sought to combine the Office of Space Commerce and the Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs and move them from NOAA to the office of the Secretary of Commerce as part of an overall $10,000,000 request for the office.