.NASA, in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to cultivate a lightning applying guitar as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) gps program.This cost-plus-award-fee contract is actually valued at approximately $297.1 million. It includes the growth of 2 flight guitars as well as possibilities for 2 added systems. The anticipated time frame of functionality for this contract features support for 10 years of on-orbit functions and five years of on-orbit storage space, for an overall of 15 years for each trip design. The work will occur at Lockheed Martin's locations in Sunnyvale, California, as well as Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Area Air travel Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the organization's Kennedy Area Center in Florida.The GeoXO Super Mapper will certainly locate, situate, and also evaluate the strength, timeframe, and also degree of super flashes. The equipment will definitely carry on important observations provided due to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Series Geostationary Super Mapmaker. Data coming from Lightning Mapmaker will certainly be actually made use of to analyze extreme tornados, raise alerting preparation for harmful climate, and deliver earlier indicators of putting in jeopardy super strikes to the ground. The data will additionally be actually used for storm magnitude prophecy, wildfire discovery as well as action, precipitation estimation, and to reduce air travel threats.Forecasters need to have lightning information from geostationary field due to the fact that the data are on call where various other resources are actually more minimal, specifically over oceans and also in hilly as well as rural areas. The information are actually additionally readily available even more often than local area radar and also filler in radar coverage gaps.The deal extent features the tasks and deliverables essential to make, assess, cultivate, assemble, integrate, examination, validate, and assess the lightning mapmaker instrument aside from supporting the launch supplying as well as maintaining the device ground help equipment as well as assisting purpose operations at the NOAA Satellite Procedures Center in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Program is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Set Plan. The GeoXO satellite body will accelerate Planet monitorings from geostationary orbit. The purpose is going to offer crucial info to address significant ecological problems of the future on behalf of climate, ocean, and weather procedures in the United States. The enhanced capacities from GeoXO will certainly help resolve our altering planet and the growing necessities of the nation's data individuals. Both NASA and also NOAA are actually working to make sure these critical observations are in location due to the early 2030s when the GOES-R Set nears the end of its functional life-time.With each other, NOAA and NASA manage the progression, launch, testing, and also operation of all the gpses in the GeoXO Plan. NOAA funds and also manages the course, functions, and record items. On behalf of NOAA, NASA and commercial companions create and also build the instruments as well as space capsule and release the ancillaries.For more information on the GeoXO program, visit:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- end-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Space Flight Facility, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, as well as Info Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.