.NASA, in support of the National Oceanic as well as Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has picked Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build a super applying guitar as aspect of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) gps plan.This cost-plus-award-fee agreement is actually valued at about $297.1 million. It includes the development of pair of trip instruments as well as possibilities for two extra systems. The awaited time frame of performance for this contract features help for ten years of on-orbit operations as well as five years of on-orbit storage space, for a total of 15 years for each flight model. The job is going to take place at Lockheed Martin's centers in Sunnyvale, California, as well as Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Space Tour Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the company's Kennedy Area Facility in Florida.The GeoXO Lightning Mapper will definitely sense, locate, and also evaluate the intensity, duration, and also degree of super flashes. The instrument is going to continue important reviews given by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Set Geostationary Lightning Mapmaker. Information from Lightning Mapmaker will certainly be actually used to study serious hurricanes, enhance cautioning lead time for unsafe weather condition, and deliver earlier indicators of jeopardizing lightning strikes to the ground. The data are going to likewise be actually used for hurricane strength forecast, wild fire detection and also action, rain estimate, as well as to relieve aviation hazards.Forecasters need lightning relevant information from geostationary pilgrimage since the information are available where other sources are even more minimal, particularly over oceans as well as in hilly and also rural areas. The records are actually likewise accessible even more regularly than regional radar and fill in radar insurance coverage gaps.The arrangement range features the jobs as well as deliverables necessary to develop, analyze, establish, assemble, combine, test, verify, as well as review the super mapmaker instrument along with supporting the launch supplying and also sustaining the apparatus ground support devices and also supporting mission procedures at the NOAA Gps Functions Facility in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO System is the follow-on to the GOES-R Collection System. The GeoXO satellite unit will accelerate Earth observations from geostationary orbit. The goal will offer necessary details to attend to primary ecological obstacles of the future on behalf of weather condition, sea, and also climate functions in the USA. The enhanced capacities from GeoXO will definitely assist resolve our changing planet and also the growing requirements of the nation's records users. Each NASA as well as NOAA are functioning to guarantee these crucial reviews reside in place due to the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Series nears the end of its own operational life-time.With each other, NOAA and also NASA manage the progression, launch, testing, as well as procedure of all the satellites in the GeoXO Course. NOAA funds as well as takes care of the system, functions, as well as record products. On behalf of NOAA, NASA and office companions build and also construct the tools and also space probe and launch the satellites.For more information on the GeoXO program, check out:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Room Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Information, and Relevant Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.