.NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has chosen Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to create a super applying guitar as component of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Reviews (GeoXO) satellite system.This cost-plus-award-fee deal is valued at around $297.1 million. It consists of the development of 2 air travel musical instruments in addition to options for two extra devices. The expected duration of functionality for this contract includes assistance for ten years of on-orbit procedures and 5 years of on-orbit storage space, for an overall of 15 years for each flight model. The job will definitely take place at Lockheed Martin's resources in Sunnyvale, California, as well as Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Space Trip Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, as well as the organization's Kennedy Room Facility in Florida.The GeoXO Lightning Mapper will definitely identify, find, and also measure the intensity, duration, as well as magnitude of super flashes. The musical instrument will certainly proceed vital reviews delivered by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Series Geostationary Super Mapmaker. Records from Super Mapper will certainly be actually made use of to evaluate intense storms, raise cautioning preparation for hazardous climate, as well as offer earlier evidence of jeopardizing lightning strikes to the ground. The data will certainly additionally be utilized for typhoon strength prophecy, wildfire diagnosis as well as response, precipitation estimate, as well as to mitigate air travel hazards.Astrologers need to have super info from geostationary arena considering that the data are actually available where various other resources are even more limited, specifically over oceans and in mountainous and rural areas. The records are additionally accessible more often than regional radar and also filler in radar protection gaps.The contract extent consists of the activities and deliverables needed to create, analyze, create, create, incorporate, test, verify, and evaluate the lightning mapmaker apparatus along with supporting the launch offering and also keeping the instrument ground assistance tools as well as assisting purpose operations at the NOAA Satellite Functions Location in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Plan is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Set Program. The GeoXO satellite unit will certainly advance The planet monitorings coming from geostationary orbit. The goal is going to supply essential relevant information to address primary environmental problems of the future in support of climate, ocean, and temperature operations in the USA. The innovative capabilities from GeoXO will definitely assist address our modifying planet and also the advancing requirements of the nation's information customers. Each NASA and also NOAA are operating to make sure these critical reviews are in area due to the early 2030s when the GOES-R Collection nears the end of its functional life time.All together, NOAA and NASA supervise the advancement, launch, testing, as well as operation of all the satellites in the GeoXO Course. NOAA funds and handles the system, procedures, and also information products. On behalf of NOAA, NASA and industrial companions create and also create the musical instruments as well as spacecraft and launch the satellites.For more details on the GeoXO system, go to:.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, Data, and Relevant Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.