.NASA, in behalf of the National Oceanic and also Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has picked Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build a super mapping tool as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) gps plan.This cost-plus-award-fee contract is actually valued at roughly $297.1 thousand. It features the advancement of 2 tour musical instruments in addition to options for pair of added units. The expected time period of efficiency for this agreement features assistance for ten years of on-orbit procedures and also 5 years of on-orbit storage space, for a total amount of 15 years for each trip design. The job will certainly take place at Lockheed Martin's resources in Sunnyvale, The Golden State, and Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Area Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the company's Kennedy Room Facility in Fla.The GeoXO Lightning Mapper will certainly identify, find, and also evaluate the strength, period, and extent of lightning flashes. The tool is going to continue essential reviews given due to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Series Geostationary Super Mapmaker. Records from Super Mapmaker are going to be actually used to evaluate serious storms, boost advising lead time for harmful climate, and also give earlier indicators of putting in jeopardy lightning strikes to the ground. The records are going to likewise be actually made use of for hurricane magnitude prophecy, wild fire detection and also response, rainfall estimation, and to alleviate air travel risks.Soothsayers need lightning relevant information from geostationary field considering that the data are offered where various other resources are actually more restricted, especially over seas and also in hilly and also backwoods. The information are additionally available even more frequently than local radar and also stuffing in radar coverage voids.The agreement extent includes the duties and also deliverables needed to design, assess, develop, produce, include, test, validate, and also evaluate the lightning mapper instrument along with assisting the launch offering and keeping the instrument ground assistance tools as well as supporting objective operations at the NOAA Satellite Functions Location in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO System is the follow-on to the GOES-R Set System. The GeoXO satellite body are going to progress The planet monitorings from geostationary orbit. The purpose is going to offer crucial info to attend to significant environmental challenges of the future in support of climate, ocean, and also environment procedures in the USA. The innovative capabilities from GeoXO are going to aid address our changing earth and the advancing requirements of the nation's data individuals. Each NASA as well as NOAA are operating to ensure these critical monitorings remain in area by the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Collection nears the end of its operational life time.With each other, NOAA and also NASA manage the progression, launch, screening, and function of all the satellites in the GeoXO Program. NOAA funds as well as handles the plan, functions, as well as record items. In behalf of NOAA, NASA as well as office partners create and also create the instruments and also space capsule and introduce the ancillaries.For more information on the GeoXO system, see:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- end-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Area Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Gps, Data, as well as Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.