.NASA, in support of the National Oceanic and also Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to establish a super mapping equipment as aspect of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite plan.This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $297.1 million. It features the development of pair of flight musical instruments along with options for two additional systems. The anticipated time period of performance for this deal features assistance for ten years of on-orbit operations as well as five years of on-orbit storing, for a total amount of 15 years for each and every tour version. The job will definitely occur at Lockheed Martin's locations in Sunnyvale, California, as well as Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the company's Kennedy Room Facility in Fla.The GeoXO Super Mapmaker are going to find, find, as well as evaluate the strength, timeframe, and extent of lightning flashes. The equipment will certainly proceed essential monitorings given due to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Collection Geostationary Super Mapmaker. Information from Super Mapmaker will certainly be utilized to examine severe hurricanes, enhance notifying lead time for unsafe climate, and offer earlier indications of approaching super strikes to the ground. The records are going to also be actually used for typhoon intensity prediction, wild fire discovery and also reaction, rain estimation, and to reduce air travel risks.Prognosticators need lightning relevant information coming from geostationary pilgrimage due to the fact that the records are readily available where various other sources are much more minimal, particularly over seas as well as in hilly as well as rural areas. The records are actually also available a lot more often than nearby radar and also stuffing in radar insurance coverage gaps.The agreement extent features the duties and deliverables essential to make, assess, establish, produce, integrate, examination, verify, as well as analyze the lightning mapper apparatus in addition to sustaining the launch supplying and also sustaining the apparatus ground support equipment as well as supporting objective procedures at the NOAA Gps Operations Center in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Course is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Series Program. The GeoXO gps system will definitely advance The planet observations coming from geostationary orbit. The mission is going to provide important relevant information to address primary environmental problems of the future on behalf of weather, sea, and also temperature functions in the United States. The state-of-the-art functionalities coming from GeoXO will certainly aid resolve our transforming planet as well as the evolving demands of the nation's information users. Each NASA as well as NOAA are actually functioning to make sure these critical monitorings remain in place due to the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Collection nears the end of its operational lifetime.Together, NOAA as well as NASA look after the advancement, launch, testing, and also operation of all the satellites in the GeoXO Program. NOAA funds and also takes care of the plan, procedures, as well as information products. In support of NOAA, NASA and also business companions create and construct the guitars and space probe as well as introduce the ancillaries.For more information on the GeoXO course, go to:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Space Air Travel Facility, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Information, as well as Relevant Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.