.NASA, in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to create a super mapping equipment as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Monitorings (GeoXO) satellite program.This cost-plus-award-fee agreement is actually valued at around $297.1 million. It consists of the growth of pair of air travel guitars in addition to options for pair of extra systems. The anticipated period of efficiency for this deal features assistance for ten years of on-orbit functions and also five years of on-orbit storage, for a total amount of 15 years for every tour version. The job will certainly happen at Lockheed Martin's facilities in Sunnyvale, The Golden State, and also Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Area Trip Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, as well as the organization's Kennedy Room Facility in Florida.The GeoXO Super Mapper are going to identify, situate, and measure the magnitude, duration, and degree of lightning flashes. The instrument will definitely carry on important monitorings delivered due to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Set Geostationary Lightning Mapmaker. Records coming from Lightning Mapper will certainly be made use of to analyze intense tornados, boost advising preparation for hazardous climate, and also offer earlier indicators of putting in jeopardy super strikes to the ground. The data will certainly likewise be used for typhoon intensity forecast, wild fire discovery and action, rainfall evaluation, and to mitigate flying hazards.Seers need lightning relevant information from geostationary field considering that the data are accessible where various other sources are even more limited, especially over oceans and in hilly and also backwoods. The records are actually additionally available more frequently than neighborhood radar and also fill in radar insurance coverage spaces.The deal extent consists of the activities as well as deliverables important to make, examine, establish, assemble, combine, test, confirm, and also evaluate the super mapper instrument in addition to sustaining the launch offering and also maintaining the tool ground support tools as well as assisting objective functions at the NOAA Satellite Operations Location in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Plan is the follow-on to the GOES-R Series Program. The GeoXO satellite body will evolve Earth monitorings coming from geostationary track. The objective is going to offer critical relevant information to deal with significant ecological problems of the future in support of climate, ocean, as well as environment operations in the United States. The enhanced functionalities from GeoXO will certainly help address our transforming world as well as the progressing requirements of the nation's records individuals. Both NASA and also NOAA are actually functioning to guarantee these important observations reside in place by the early 2030s when the GOES-R Series nears completion of its operational life time.Together, NOAA and also NASA look after the advancement, launch, screening, and function of all the satellites in the GeoXO Course. NOAA funds and also manages the course, functions, and information items. In support of NOAA, NASA as well as business companions establish and also construct the tools and also space probe as well as release the ancillaries.To read more on the GeoXO course, visit:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Room Tour Center, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.