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NOAA plans to launch the three remaining JPSS satellites in 2022, 2027, and 2032.
If approved, GEO-XO-Central would fly NOAA’s first operational hyperspectral sounder in geostationary orbit.
NOAA’s first delivery order directed GeoOptics and Spire Global each to provide 500 daily radio occultation soundings for 30 days.
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.
Maxar won the largest individual NOAA study contract worth nearly $1,000,000.
PlanetIQ has raised $18,700,000 and holds contracts from NOAA and the U.S. Air Force.
NOAA plans to launch JPSS-2 in 2023, JPSS-3 in 2026, and JPSS-4 in 2031.
NOAA’s Class 3 tier applies to systems with sensors that produce very sensitive data whose unauthorized dissemination would pose a clear and significant threat to national security or foreign policy and where loss of control of the space vehicle would produce significant hazards.