.NASA, in behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has decided on Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to develop a super mapping guitar as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Reviews (GeoXO) satellite system.This cost-plus-award-fee agreement is valued at roughly $297.1 million. It consists of the development of two flight equipments along with alternatives for two additional systems. The expected time frame of functionality for this arrangement features help for one decade of on-orbit operations and 5 years of on-orbit storage space, for an overall of 15 years for each tour model. The job will definitely happen at Lockheed Martin's locations in Sunnyvale, The Golden State, and also Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Room Trip Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the firm's Kennedy Space Facility in Florida.The GeoXO Lightning Mapmaker are going to sense, find, and determine the intensity, duration, and also degree of super flashes. The equipment will definitely continue crucial reviews given by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Set Geostationary Super Mapmaker. Information from Lightning Mapper will certainly be used to examine intense tornados, raise alerting preparation for unsafe weather condition, as well as offer earlier signs of being dangerous lightning strikes to the ground. The data are going to additionally be actually made use of for storm magnitude prophecy, wild fire discovery and also feedback, rainfall evaluation, and also to reduce aviation hazards.Meteorologists need to have super information coming from geostationary arena considering that the data are actually available where various other sources are much more minimal, specifically over oceans as well as in mountainous and rural areas. The data are actually additionally accessible more often than neighborhood radar as well as stuffing in radar insurance coverage voids.The arrangement extent features the activities and deliverables essential to design, analyze, cultivate, produce, include, examination, validate, and evaluate the lightning mapmaker device besides supporting the launch offering and also sustaining the apparatus ground help tools as well as supporting purpose operations at the NOAA Satellite Procedures Resource in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO System is the follow-on to the GOES-R Set Plan. The GeoXO gps unit will advance Planet observations coming from geostationary track. The purpose is going to supply critical information to deal with major ecological difficulties of the future on behalf of climate, sea, and also temperature operations in the United States. The state-of-the-art capabilities from GeoXO will definitely help address our modifying world and also the growing demands of the nation's information consumers. Both NASA as well as NOAA are actually operating to make sure these essential reviews are in location by the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Collection nears the end of its own operational life-time.All together, NOAA and NASA oversee the progression, launch, testing, and procedure of all the gpses in the GeoXO System. NOAA funds and handles the course, procedures, and also data products. On behalf of NOAA, NASA and commercial partners build and also construct the equipments and spacecraft as well as introduce the satellites.To learn more on the GeoXO plan, see:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- end-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Room Air Travel Center, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Gps, Data, as well as Info Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.