.NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and also Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has chosen Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to create a super applying tool as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Reviews (GeoXO) satellite program.This cost-plus-award-fee agreement is valued at about $297.1 million. It includes the development of two flight guitars in addition to options for two added devices. The awaited duration of performance for this deal features support for ten years of on-orbit functions as well as 5 years of on-orbit storage, for a total of 15 years for every flight model. The job is going to take place at Lockheed Martin's resources in Sunnyvale, California, and also Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Space Air travel Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the company's Kennedy Room Center in Florida.The GeoXO Lightning Mapper will definitely discover, find, and also evaluate the magnitude, duration, and also level of lightning flashes. The instrument will certainly proceed critical reviews offered due to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Set Geostationary Super Mapper. Records from Lightning Mapmaker will certainly be actually utilized to evaluate serious storms, raise cautioning preparation for harmful weather, as well as give earlier indications of jeopardizing super strikes to the ground. The information will additionally be actually utilized for typhoon magnitude prophecy, wild fire diagnosis and also reaction, rainfall estimate, and to reduce flying threats.Meteorologists need lightning info from geostationary arena since the information are accessible where various other sources are much more restricted, specifically over oceans and in hilly and also backwoods. The information are also offered more regularly than local radar as well as stuffing in radar coverage spaces.The contract range consists of the activities and deliverables important to make, analyze, establish, assemble, integrate, exam, verify, as well as assess the lightning mapmaker device in addition to sustaining the launch supplying and also sustaining the tool ground support devices and also assisting objective functions at the NOAA Gps Functions Center in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO System is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Collection System. The GeoXO gps body will advance Planet monitorings coming from geostationary orbit. The goal is going to provide essential information to deal with primary ecological difficulties of the future in support of weather, ocean, and also weather procedures in the USA. The state-of-the-art abilities from GeoXO will definitely aid address our changing planet as well as the progressing requirements of the country's records users. Both NASA and NOAA are actually working to guarantee these critical reviews reside in spot by the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Series nears completion of its functional life-time.With each other, NOAA as well as NASA manage the progression, launch, testing, and also function of all the gpses in the GeoXO Program. NOAA funds and takes care of the program, functions, as well as information items. In behalf of NOAA, NASA and also business companions create as well as build the instruments as well as space capsule and introduce the ancillaries.To find out more on the GeoXO program, see:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Area Air Travel Facility, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Gps, Information, and also Info Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.