.NASA, in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has decided on Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build a super applying musical instrument as component of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Reviews (GeoXO) satellite program.This cost-plus-award-fee arrangement is valued at roughly $297.1 million. It includes the advancement of two tour guitars in addition to possibilities for two additional systems. The anticipated time period of performance for this agreement consists of support for 10 years of on-orbit operations and also 5 years of on-orbit storage, for an overall of 15 years for each air travel version. The job will definitely occur at Lockheed Martin's resources in Sunnyvale, The Golden State, and Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Area Tour Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the firm's Kennedy Area Center in Florida.The GeoXO Lightning Mapper are going to find, locate, and also assess the intensity, length, and level of super flashes. The tool will continue essential monitorings given by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Set Geostationary Lightning Mapmaker. Data coming from Lightning Mapmaker will certainly be actually used to assess intense tornados, boost notifying lead time for dangerous climate, and also give earlier indicators of frightening lightning strikes to the ground. The information will also be actually made use of for hurricane intensity forecast, wild fire discovery and also response, rainfall evaluation, and to relieve flying hazards.Astrologers require super relevant information coming from geostationary scope given that the data are actually accessible where various other sources are actually even more limited, specifically over seas and also in hilly and backwoods. The data are also accessible more often than local radar and filler in radar insurance coverage voids.The deal scope features the activities and deliverables required to make, study, cultivate, produce, integrate, examination, validate, and examine the super mapmaker instrument along with assisting the launch offering and also maintaining the apparatus ground support devices and also sustaining mission procedures at the NOAA Gps Functions Center in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Course is the follow-on to the GOES-R Series Plan. The GeoXO satellite unit will evolve Planet observations from geostationary track. The goal will supply important details to address primary ecological problems of the future on behalf of climate, sea, as well as environment procedures in the United States. The enhanced abilities coming from GeoXO will aid resolve our modifying world and the progressing requirements of the nation's data consumers. Both NASA as well as NOAA are actually operating to ensure these essential observations are in place by the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Set nears the end of its operational lifetime.All together, NOAA as well as NASA look after the growth, launch, screening, and also operation of all the gpses in the GeoXO System. NOAA funds as well as manages the course, functions, and also information products. In behalf of NOAA, NASA and also industrial partners build as well as create the tools and also space capsule and also launch the satellites.For additional information on the GeoXO program, visit:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- end-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Area Trip Center, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and also Relevant Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.