.NASA, in behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has chosen Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to establish a super mapping equipment as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program.This cost-plus-award-fee agreement is valued at about $297.1 million. It features the development of 2 tour equipments in addition to choices for two added units. The anticipated duration of functionality for this deal includes assistance for 10 years of on-orbit functions and 5 years of on-orbit storage, for a total amount of 15 years for each tour design. The job will take place at Lockheed Martin's resources in Sunnyvale, The Golden State, and Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Space Tour Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the company's Kennedy Room Center in Florida.The GeoXO Super Mapper are going to find, find, as well as gauge the magnitude, duration, and also magnitude of super flashes. The instrument is going to carry on essential reviews supplied by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Series Geostationary Super Mapper. Records from Super Mapmaker are going to be utilized to evaluate serious storms, raise cautioning lead time for unsafe weather, and offer earlier indications of being dangerous super strikes to the ground. The information will additionally be actually made use of for hurricane magnitude prophecy, wild fire discovery and feedback, rainfall estimation, as well as to alleviate air travel dangers.Astrologers need to have lightning details from geostationary pilgrimage given that the information are accessible where various other resources are actually more limited, specifically over oceans and in hilly and also backwoods. The information are also available extra regularly than neighborhood radar as well as stuffing in radar coverage gaps.The agreement range consists of the jobs as well as deliverables important to make, evaluate, create, fabricate, combine, exam, verify, and assess the super mapper device aside from assisting the launch providing and sustaining the tool ground assistance devices and supporting mission operations at the NOAA Gps Functions Center in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Program is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Series Program. The GeoXO gps system will advance Earth observations from geostationary orbit. The mission is going to offer vital relevant information to take care of major environmental problems of the future on behalf of climate, ocean, and also temperature procedures in the United States. The sophisticated functionalities from GeoXO will assist address our transforming earth and also the developing demands of the country's data individuals. Each NASA and also NOAA are operating to ensure these vital observations reside in spot due to the early 2030s when the GOES-R Collection nears the end of its working life time.Together, NOAA as well as NASA supervise the growth, launch, screening, and procedure of all the gpses in the GeoXO Plan. NOAA funds and also deals with the plan, operations, and data items. In support of NOAA, NASA and industrial companions cultivate and also develop the equipments and also space capsule and also launch the satellites.For additional information on the GeoXO system, visit:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Space Tour Facility, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and also Details Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.