.NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and also Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has picked Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build a lightning mapping guitar as aspect of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Monitorings (GeoXO) satellite program.This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at roughly $297.1 thousand. It consists of the development of pair of air travel musical instruments along with options for 2 added systems. The awaited duration of performance for this agreement consists of help for one decade of on-orbit procedures and 5 years of on-orbit storage, for a total amount of 15 years for every air travel version. The work is going to happen at Lockheed Martin's centers in Sunnyvale, California, and also Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Room Air travel Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The GeoXO Super Mapper will certainly sense, locate, and also assess the magnitude, duration, and also extent of lightning flashes. The tool will continue crucial observations supplied due to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Set Geostationary Lightning Mapper. Data coming from Lightning Mapper are going to be used to study intense tornados, boost warning preparation for dangerous weather, and also deliver earlier signs of overhanging lightning strikes to the ground. The information will definitely also be utilized for typhoon intensity forecast, wild fire discovery and also response, rain estimation, and also to alleviate air travel dangers.Seers need super information coming from geostationary pilgrimage since the records are readily available where various other sources are much more minimal, specifically over seas and in mountainous as well as backwoods. The data are actually also available more frequently than local radar and filler in radar coverage spaces.The agreement scope consists of the jobs and deliverables necessary to create, examine, cultivate, produce, integrate, examination, confirm, and evaluate the lightning mapper tool along with sustaining the launch offering as well as keeping the instrument ground support equipment and also sustaining purpose functions at the NOAA Satellite Workflow Resource in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Plan is the follow-on to the GOES-R Set Course. The GeoXO satellite body will certainly advance Planet monitorings from geostationary track. The mission is going to provide critical details to resolve major ecological obstacles of the future in support of weather condition, ocean, and climate functions in the United States. The advanced abilities coming from GeoXO will definitely assist address our changing world and also the advancing necessities of the country's records users. Both NASA as well as NOAA are operating to make sure these critical observations are in spot due to the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Series nears the end of its working lifetime.All together, NOAA as well as NASA supervise the progression, launch, screening, and function of all the satellites in the GeoXO Course. NOAA funds as well as manages the plan, procedures, as well as record products. In support of NOAA, NASA and commercial companions cultivate and build the tools and also space capsule and introduce the satellites.To read more on the GeoXO plan, see:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Area Trip Facility, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Information, and Details Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.