.NASA, in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has decided on Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to create a super mapping instrument as aspect of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Monitorings (GeoXO) satellite course.This cost-plus-award-fee deal is actually valued at approximately $297.1 million. It includes the growth of 2 trip tools in addition to options for pair of added units. The expected time frame of performance for this arrangement includes assistance for one decade of on-orbit functions as well as five years of on-orbit storage, for an overall of 15 years for every flight model. The job will certainly take place at Lockheed Martin's facilities in Sunnyvale, California, and also Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Room Trip Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the company's Kennedy Space Facility in Florida.The GeoXO Lightning Mapmaker will certainly recognize, locate, and also determine the magnitude, timeframe, and also degree of lightning flashes. The tool will definitely carry on essential monitorings given by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Series Geostationary Lightning Mapmaker. Records from Lightning Mapper will certainly be made use of to assess extreme storms, improve alerting preparation for dangerous climate, as well as offer earlier evidence of frightening super strikes to the ground. The information will likewise be actually used for storm strength prediction, wildfire discovery as well as reaction, rain evaluation, as well as to minimize air travel dangers.Forecasters need super details from geostationary orbit since the information are actually available where various other resources are even more limited, specifically over seas as well as in hilly and backwoods. The data are also offered even more frequently than regional radar and fill in radar protection voids.The deal range consists of the tasks and also deliverables essential to create, analyze, develop, produce, integrate, test, validate, and analyze the lightning mapmaker tool along with assisting the launch offering and keeping the tool ground assistance equipment and assisting goal functions at the NOAA Satellite Operations Center in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO System is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Collection Program. The GeoXO gps unit are going to progress Earth monitorings from geostationary track. The mission will offer essential info to deal with major environmental challenges of the future on behalf of weather, ocean, and also temperature procedures in the United States. The innovative capabilities from GeoXO are going to assist address our modifying planet and the evolving necessities of the country's data users. Both NASA and NOAA are functioning to make certain these important observations are in spot by the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Collection nears the end of its own operational life-time.Together, NOAA and also NASA look after the advancement, launch, screening, and also operation of all the gpses in the GeoXO Program. NOAA funds as well as deals with the program, operations, and data products. In support of NOAA, NASA as well as business companions cultivate and develop the guitars and spacecraft and release the satellites.To read more on the GeoXO plan, visit:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Space Air Travel Facility, 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.