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Congress did not sanction the merger of the JPSS and Polar Follow-on programs in its 2019 budget report and requested that NOAA provide a revised proposal identifying the cost and programmatic efficiencies from combining these programs along with its 2020 budget request.
The 2020 budget blueprint includes nearly $218,000,000 for the NOAA Satellite Observing System Architecture Study to plan for the generation of operational satellites beyond Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite‑R and the Joint Polar Satellite System.
NOAA is preparing to launch six Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-2 (COSMIC-2) radio occultation satellites in 2019 in a joint program with Taiwan.
NOAA currently funds JPSS-1 and JPSS-2 through its Joint Polar Satellite System program.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Defense have established and implemented plans to mitigate potential gaps in weather satellite data.
NOAA launched the first Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft, now called NOAA-20, in late 2017.
Steven Volz, assistant administrator for satellite and information services, thanked NOAA staff for their work leading to the successful launch of NOAA-20 and two next-generation geostationary orbit satellites.
NOAA launched Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-17 (GOES-17) in 2018 with four space weather instruments.
NOAA launched Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) in 2016 with four space weather instruments.
NOAA is seeking funding to install a Naval Research Laboratory compact coronagraph on GOES-U, which is set to launch in 2024.
NOAA is in the second round of its Commercial Weather Data Pilot program with contracts awarded in September 2018 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire.
The first round of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot, using contracts awarded in 2016 to GeoOptics and Spire, concluded that the data fell short of expectations.
Barry Myers was originally nominated to lead NOAA in October 2017.
In September, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded more than $8,000,000 to GeoOptics, PlanetiQ, and Spire to provide GPS radio occultation data from current or planned constellations.
Barry Myers committed to a complete separation between AccuWeather and NOAA during his November 2017 confirmation hearing.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center selected a 110-kilogram Orbital Test Bed to carry a sensor from the French space agency CNES on behalf of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Lockheed Martin finished assembling the GOES-T spacecraft in 2019 and was preparing it for environmental testing when NOAA directed the company to halt work due to ABI problems on GOES-17.
The Air Force plans to move a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) into a similar orbit to Meteosat 8 as a temporary fix.
During on-orbit checkout of GOES-17, NOAA discovered that ABI’s infrared channels were not working as designed because of cooling problems.
NOAA will not launch GOES-T in May 2020.