.NASA, in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has decided on Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build a lightning applying equipment as component of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Monitorings (GeoXO) satellite program.This cost-plus-award-fee agreement is valued at roughly $297.1 million. It consists of the progression of two flight tools as well as possibilities for pair of added devices. The expected time period of functionality for this agreement includes assistance for one decade of on-orbit procedures and 5 years of on-orbit storing, for a total of 15 years for each trip version. The job will definitely happen at Lockheed Martin's locations in Sunnyvale, The Golden State, and Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Area Tour Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the organization's Kennedy Area Facility in Florida.The GeoXO Super Mapmaker will locate, situate, and also gauge the magnitude, timeframe, and also degree of super flashes. The guitar will definitely proceed vital observations offered by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Collection Geostationary Lightning Mapper. Information from Super Mapper will definitely be actually utilized to evaluate severe tornados, raise cautioning lead time for harmful weather, and provide earlier indicators of jeopardizing super strikes to the ground. The records are going to additionally be utilized for typhoon intensity forecast, wildfire discovery and also response, rainfall estimation, and to relieve flying risks.Soothsayers require lightning information from geostationary field given that the records are readily available where various other resources are actually a lot more limited, particularly over oceans as well as in hilly and backwoods. The records are additionally readily available much more often than regional radar as well as stuffing in radar coverage gaps.The arrangement range consists of the tasks and deliverables needed to design, study, establish, produce, include, examination, verify, and evaluate the lightning mapmaker tool along with sustaining the launch providing and keeping the tool ground support equipment and assisting purpose operations at the NOAA Satellite Functions Facility in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Course is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Series Plan. The GeoXO gps body will definitely evolve The planet monitorings coming from geostationary track. The objective will offer necessary information to deal with significant environmental obstacles of the future in support of weather condition, sea, and also temperature procedures in the USA. The advanced capacities coming from GeoXO are going to aid address our transforming world as well as the growing demands of the nation's information users. Each NASA as well as NOAA are functioning to make sure these vital observations remain in location due to the early 2030s when the GOES-R Collection nears the end of its own working life time.All together, NOAA and also NASA supervise the advancement, launch, screening, and also procedure of all the gpses in the GeoXO System. NOAA funds and also handles the program, operations, and also information products. On behalf of NOAA, NASA and industrial companions develop and also construct the musical instruments as well as spacecraft and also release the satellites.For more information on the GeoXO course, go to:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- end-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Space Air Travel Center, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Information, and Details Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.