.NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has actually selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to establish a lightning mapping tool as component of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Reviews (GeoXO) gps course.This cost-plus-award-fee contract is actually valued at around $297.1 thousand. It features the development of 2 flight equipments and also options for two additional units. The awaited time frame of functionality for this contract includes help for one decade of on-orbit procedures as well as five years of on-orbit storing, for a total of 15 years for each and every tour version. The job will happen at Lockheed Martin's resources in Sunnyvale, California, as well as Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, as well as the agency's Kennedy Room Facility in Fla.The GeoXO Lightning Mapmaker will certainly sense, situate, and determine the intensity, duration, and level of lightning flashes. The tool will proceed important observations provided by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Series Geostationary Super Mapper. Records coming from Super Mapper will certainly be made use of to examine intense hurricanes, boost cautioning preparation for dangerous weather, as well as supply earlier indicators of impending super strikes to the ground. The records will certainly additionally be used for storm strength prophecy, wildfire diagnosis as well as reaction, precipitation estimate, and to mitigate aeronautics dangers.Seers need to have lightning info from geostationary field considering that the information are actually on call where other sources are extra minimal, specifically over oceans as well as in hilly and also backwoods. The data are actually additionally available even more frequently than local radar and also stuffing in radar insurance coverage voids.The agreement range consists of the duties and deliverables required to make, study, create, fabricate, combine, examination, confirm, and evaluate the lightning mapper instrument along with sustaining the launch supplying as well as keeping the instrument ground help tools and also assisting objective procedures at the NOAA Satellite Procedures Resource in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Plan is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Collection Program. The GeoXO gps body will definitely advance Planet observations from geostationary orbit. The purpose will provide essential info to resolve primary environmental problems of the future on behalf of weather condition, sea, and weather functions in the USA. The enhanced capabilities coming from GeoXO will certainly aid address our altering planet as well as the evolving needs of the nation's data individuals. Both NASA and NOAA are actually functioning to make sure these vital observations are in area by the early 2030s when the GOES-R Set nears completion of its working life time.All together, NOAA as well as NASA oversee the advancement, launch, screening, and function of all the gpses in the GeoXO Course. NOAA funds as well as takes care of the plan, functions, and information products. In support of NOAA, NASA as well as commercial partners create as well as create the instruments as well as space capsule and launch the ancillaries.For additional information on the GeoXO course, 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, Information, and Details Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.