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NASA Decides On Lockheed Martin to Build Super Mapmaker for NOAA

.NASA, in support of the National Oceanic and also Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has decided on Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to cultivate a super applying tool as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Reviews (GeoXO) satellite system.This cost-plus-award-fee contract is actually valued at around $297.1 million. It features the growth of pair of trip musical instruments along with choices for two added devices. The expected duration of efficiency for this contract features support for one decade of on-orbit procedures and five years of on-orbit storage space, for an overall of 15 years for each and every air travel design. The job will certainly take place at Lockheed Martin's resources in Sunnyvale, California, as well as Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Room Trip Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the organization's Kennedy Area Center in Fla.The GeoXO Super Mapper will definitely identify, find, and also measure the strength, timeframe, as well as magnitude of lightning flashes. The tool will certainly carry on vital observations given due to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Set Geostationary Super Mapper. Data from Lightning Mapmaker will definitely be actually utilized to evaluate extreme tornados, boost cautioning preparation for hazardous climate, and also deliver earlier signs of impending super strikes to the ground. The information will certainly additionally be actually made use of for storm intensity prophecy, wildfire detection and response, rain estimate, and also to reduce aviation dangers.Prognosticators need super information coming from geostationary orbit considering that the information are readily available where other sources are more restricted, particularly over oceans as well as in hilly and backwoods. The information are also accessible much more regularly than regional radar and fill in radar insurance coverage gaps.The contract scope consists of the activities and also deliverables important to develop, evaluate, build, fabricate, incorporate, examination, verify, and also assess the super mapper instrument in addition to supporting the launch offering and also keeping the instrument ground assistance equipment and supporting mission operations at the NOAA Satellite Functions Center in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Plan is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Series Course. The GeoXO satellite body will certainly evolve Earth observations from geostationary track. The goal is going to provide critical details to resolve primary ecological obstacles of the future in support of weather, ocean, and weather procedures in the United States. The advanced capabilities from GeoXO will definitely help resolve our modifying earth and also the developing demands of the country's information consumers. Both NASA as well as NOAA are working to make sure these critical monitorings are in place by the early 2030s when the GOES-R Set nears the end of its own operational life-time.Together, NOAA and NASA manage the progression, launch, screening, and procedure of all the satellites in the GeoXO Program. NOAA funds as well as takes care of the course, procedures, and also record items. In support of NOAA, NASA as well as industrial companions cultivate as well as build the equipments as well as space capsule as well as release the satellites.For more information on the GeoXO plan, visit:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- end-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Room Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Gps, Data, and Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.

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