.NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has actually selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build a lightning mapping equipment as aspect of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Reviews (GeoXO) gps plan.This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at around $297.1 thousand. It includes the progression of pair of flight musical instruments and also options for pair of added devices. The expected period of performance for this arrangement features support for ten years of on-orbit procedures and also five years of on-orbit storage, for a total amount of 15 years for every trip style. The work will take place at Lockheed Martin's locations in Sunnyvale, California, and also Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Area Air travel Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, as well as the company's Kennedy Room Facility in Florida.The GeoXO Lightning Mapper are going to detect, situate, as well as evaluate the strength, period, as well as level of super flashes. The tool will certainly continue important reviews delivered by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Series Geostationary Lightning Mapper. Records coming from Lightning Mapmaker will definitely be used to study serious storms, raise cautioning lead time for harmful climate, as well as supply earlier evidence of frightening lightning strikes to the ground. The information will certainly additionally be used for hurricane intensity forecast, wildfire detection and reaction, rainfall evaluation, as well as to alleviate aeronautics hazards.Meteorologists require lightning information coming from geostationary orbit given that the records are actually offered where other sources are much more limited, particularly over seas and in hilly and also backwoods. The information are actually likewise offered even more often than local radar as well as filler in radar insurance coverage gaps.The deal scope includes the duties and deliverables important to develop, examine, build, produce, integrate, examination, validate, and also review the super mapmaker tool aside from assisting the launch providing as well as sustaining the tool ground assistance equipment as well as sustaining objective procedures at the NOAA Satellite Functions Facility in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Plan is the follow-on to the GOES-R Set System. The GeoXO satellite body will certainly accelerate The planet monitorings from geostationary orbit. The purpose will supply necessary details to deal with significant ecological obstacles of the future in support of climate, sea, and climate procedures in the United States. The innovative functionalities from GeoXO are going to help address our transforming world and also the advancing needs of the nation's records users. Both NASA and also NOAA are working to ensure these essential observations remain in location due to the early 2030s when the GOES-R Set nears the end of its operational life time.Together, NOAA and also NASA manage the development, launch, screening, and also operation of all the satellites in the GeoXO Plan. NOAA funds as well as manages the system, functions, as well as record products. In behalf of NOAA, NASA as well as business companions create and also construct the tools as well as space probe and release the satellites.For more information on the GeoXO plan, visit:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Room Trip Center, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Information, and also Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.