.NASA, in behalf of the National Oceanic as well as Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has actually chosen Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build a super mapping tool as component of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Monitorings (GeoXO) gps plan.This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $297.1 thousand. It includes the progression of two flight equipments along with alternatives for pair of added units. The expected period of functionality for this arrangement consists of help for one decade of on-orbit procedures as well as five years of on-orbit storage, for an overall of 15 years for every tour model. The work will take place at Lockheed Martin's centers in Sunnyvale, The Golden State, and also Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Area Air travel Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the agency's Kennedy Room Facility in Florida.The GeoXO Lightning Mapmaker will definitely find, find, and also assess the intensity, duration, as well as level of super flashes. The tool is going to carry on crucial monitorings provided due to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Collection Geostationary Lightning Mapper. Data coming from Super Mapmaker are going to be utilized to evaluate serious tornados, raise warning preparation for unsafe weather, and also give earlier evidence of impending lightning strikes to the ground. The records will certainly likewise be utilized for typhoon strength forecast, wild fire discovery and also feedback, rain estimate, as well as to reduce aviation risks.Soothsayers require lightning details coming from geostationary field given that the records are actually readily available where various other sources are extra limited, specifically over oceans as well as in mountainous and rural areas. The data are additionally offered a lot more often than neighborhood radar and filler in radar protection spaces.The agreement extent features the jobs as well as deliverables important to design, examine, establish, produce, incorporate, exam, confirm, and evaluate the super mapper tool in addition to sustaining the launch offering and also maintaining the device ground help tools and also supporting purpose functions at the NOAA Satellite Functions Resource in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Plan is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Set System. The GeoXO gps system will certainly progress Planet monitorings coming from geostationary orbit. The objective will offer vital details to address significant environmental obstacles of the future in support of weather, sea, and environment operations in the USA. The innovative abilities from GeoXO will certainly help resolve our changing planet and also the advancing demands of the nation's information consumers. Both NASA and also NOAA are operating to ensure these crucial reviews reside in place due to the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Collection nears completion of its operational lifetime.With each other, NOAA and also NASA manage the advancement, launch, screening, and also operation of all the gpses in the GeoXO Plan. NOAA funds as well as deals with the system, functions, as well as data items. In behalf of NOAA, NASA as well as office partners develop and build the musical instruments as well as spacecraft and also launch the satellites.For more details on the GeoXO course, see:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Area Flight 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.