On March 18, 2021, NASA successfully tested the core stage of the Space Launch System in Mississippi. The plume was seen by a weather satellite. NASA/Robert Markowitz On Mar. 18, NASA test-fired the core stage of its honking huge Space Launch System rocket, which is designed to power the agency’s […]
Advanced Baseline Imager
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SAN FRANCISCO – L3Harris Technologies won four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contracts worth a combined $2.55 million for design studies of weather satellites, instruments and mission concepts. L3Harris supplies the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) for NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series, the Cross Track Infrared Sounder for NOAA’s […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Raytheon won a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contract for a design study of Real Time Imager (RTI), an instrument to obtain high-resolution Earth observation imagery from geostationary orbit. NOAA awarded Raytheon Intelligence & Space a $413,088 contract in April to spend six months assessing an approach […]
SAN FRANCISCO – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded eight contracts with a combined total of nearly $4.5 million to companies developing mission concepts, spacecraft and instruments for the agency’s future Earth observation constellation. The study contracts announced April 9 were the first awards issued in the agency’s campaign […]
TITUSVILLE, Fla. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will complete its transition to a new generation of geostationary weather satellites in January when it shuts down two older spacecraft. NOAA announced Dec. 18 that the GOES-14 and GOES-15 spacecraft will be powered down and placed into “orbital storage” by […]
WASHINGTON — A report released Aug. 1 concluded that a problem with an instrument on the GOES-17 weather satellite is likely caused by some kind of blockage in a system used to cool the instrument. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a summary of the final report […]
With key space weather satellites expected to fail before U.S. and European agencies launch replacements, “small satellites may be the only way of averting a bleak future,” said Daniel Baker, director of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. Many of the instruments the U.S. relies on […]
PHOENIX — The American Meteorological Society estimates 3,700 atmospheric and space scientists will gather this week at its 99th annual meeting with another 700 people who planned to attend were forced to stay away due to the government shutdown. The impact of the shutdown may be even greater, though, because […]