.NASA, in support of the National Oceanic and also Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to create a super mapping equipment as portion of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Monitorings (GeoXO) gps course.This cost-plus-award-fee agreement is valued at approximately $297.1 million. It includes the progression of two trip guitars and also alternatives for pair of additional units. The anticipated duration of functionality for this contract includes help for one decade of on-orbit procedures as well as 5 years of on-orbit storage space, for a total of 15 years for each and every air travel style. The work will definitely happen at Lockheed Martin's facilities in Sunnyvale, California, and also Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Room Air travel Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as well as the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Fla.The GeoXO Super Mapmaker will recognize, locate, as well as gauge the strength, period, and also degree of lightning flashes. The guitar will definitely carry on critical reviews delivered by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Series Geostationary Super Mapmaker. Information from Super Mapmaker will be utilized to evaluate intense hurricanes, enhance cautioning preparation for unsafe weather, and offer earlier evidence of foreshadowing lightning strikes to the ground. The data are going to likewise be actually used for hurricane strength prophecy, wildfire detection and feedback, rain estimation, and to alleviate flying threats.Forecasters need to have lightning relevant information coming from geostationary pilgrimage due to the fact that the records are actually on call where various other sources are more minimal, particularly over seas as well as in mountainous as well as backwoods. The records are actually also accessible a lot more frequently than regional radar as well as stuffing in radar protection spaces.The arrangement scope features the duties and deliverables important to make, analyze, build, create, include, test, validate, and also examine the super mapmaker instrument along with sustaining the launch offering and sustaining the apparatus ground support devices and also assisting purpose operations at the NOAA Satellite Procedures Center in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Plan is the follow-on to the GOES-R Set Program. The GeoXO gps system will definitely advance Earth observations from geostationary track. The purpose will offer critical relevant information to address major environmental obstacles of the future in support of climate, sea, as well as environment operations in the USA. The state-of-the-art functionalities coming from GeoXO will definitely help resolve our transforming world as well as the progressing necessities of the country's information users. Both NASA as well as NOAA are working to make certain these critical reviews reside in area due to the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Series nears the end of its operational life-time.With each other, NOAA and also NASA supervise the advancement, launch, testing, and procedure of all the gpses in the GeoXO Program. NOAA funds and also manages the program, operations, and data products. In behalf of NOAA, NASA and office companions establish and develop the equipments and also space probe and also release 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 Air Travel Facility, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Information, as well as Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.