.NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic as well as Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has actually chosen Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build a lightning mapping tool as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Monitorings (GeoXO) satellite system.This cost-plus-award-fee agreement is actually valued at roughly $297.1 million. It consists of the advancement of two flight instruments as well as possibilities for two additional units. The awaited time frame of performance for this contract features help for 10 years of on-orbit procedures as well as five years of on-orbit storage, for a total of 15 years for every flight style. The job is going to take place at Lockheed Martin's resources in Sunnyvale, California, and also Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Area Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the organization's Kennedy Room Facility in Fla.The GeoXO Lightning Mapmaker will locate, find, and gauge the magnitude, timeframe, as well as degree of super flashes. The musical instrument will carry on important observations supplied due to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Series Geostationary Lightning Mapper. Information coming from Super Mapper will be made use of to evaluate intense hurricanes, increase cautioning lead time for harmful climate, and also deliver earlier signs of impending lightning strikes to the ground. The data will certainly also be actually made use of for hurricane intensity prediction, wildfire detection and also action, precipitation estimate, and also to mitigate flying threats.Prognosticators need to have super information from geostationary pilgrimage considering that the data are actually on call where various other sources are more minimal, particularly over seas and also in mountainous as well as rural areas. The records are actually likewise accessible much more regularly than regional radar and also stuffing in radar protection spaces.The deal range includes the duties as well as deliverables essential to make, assess, develop, make, include, exam, verify, and also examine the lightning mapmaker device besides assisting the launch providing and keeping the apparatus ground help tools and assisting objective operations at the NOAA Gps Procedures Center in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Program is the follow-on to the GOES-R Collection Course. The GeoXO gps device will definitely accelerate Earth observations from geostationary track. The purpose will provide essential information to attend to major ecological challenges of the future on behalf of weather, sea, and weather procedures in the United States. The enhanced capabilities coming from GeoXO will certainly help address our transforming world and also the advancing demands of the nation's data consumers. Each NASA and also NOAA are actually working to make sure these crucial observations reside in spot by the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Collection nears completion of its working life time.Together, NOAA as well as NASA oversee the progression, launch, testing, and also operation of all the gpses in the GeoXO Program. NOAA funds and manages the system, procedures, and information products. In behalf of NOAA, NASA and also industrial companions create as well as create the musical instruments and also space probe and also launch the satellites.For more information on the GeoXO program, go to:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- end-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Space Flight Facility, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Information, and Relevant Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.