.NASA, in support of the National Oceanic and also Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has decided on Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to develop a lightning mapping instrument as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) gps program.This cost-plus-award-fee agreement is valued at roughly $297.1 thousand. It features the progression of 2 flight instruments and also options for 2 additional units. The anticipated duration of performance for this agreement includes support for ten years of on-orbit functions and five years of on-orbit storage, for a total of 15 years for every tour model. The job will certainly happen at Lockheed Martin's resources in Sunnyvale, The Golden State, and also Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the firm's Kennedy Space Center in Fla.The GeoXO Super Mapmaker will certainly identify, situate, and also gauge the strength, period, and also degree of super flashes. The instrument is going to carry on vital monitorings provided by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Set Geostationary Lightning Mapper. Records from Super Mapmaker will definitely be used to analyze severe hurricanes, improve notifying lead time for dangerous weather condition, as well as supply earlier signs of approaching super strikes to the ground. The records will definitely also be utilized for hurricane magnitude prophecy, wildfire detection as well as response, rainfall estimation, as well as to relieve aeronautics dangers.Soothsayers need lightning relevant information from geostationary pilgrimage since the records are available where various other resources are much more limited, specifically over oceans and also in hilly and rural areas. The data are actually also offered extra frequently than nearby radar and stuffing in radar insurance coverage gaps.The deal range consists of the duties as well as deliverables needed to design, assess, cultivate, make, incorporate, examination, validate, as well as examine the super mapmaker instrument besides supporting the launch offering and also maintaining the device ground support tools as well as supporting purpose procedures at the NOAA Satellite Workflow Facility in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Course is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Collection Course. The GeoXO gps system will certainly progress The planet monitorings from geostationary track. The purpose is going to provide necessary information to resolve primary ecological challenges of the future in support of weather condition, ocean, and temperature procedures in the USA. The state-of-the-art capacities from GeoXO are going to assist address our altering world and also the developing requirements of the country's data individuals. Each NASA as well as NOAA are functioning to make certain these vital monitorings are in location by the early 2030s when the GOES-R Collection nears completion of its own operational life-time.Together, NOAA and NASA supervise the development, launch, screening, and also operation of all the satellites in the GeoXO System. NOAA funds as well as handles the plan, functions, as well as record items. In support of NOAA, NASA as well as office companions create as well as construct the equipments and space capsule and introduce the satellites.For additional information on the GeoXO program, visit:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Area Tour Center, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Information, and also Relevant Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.