.NASA, in behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to create a lightning applying tool as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Reviews (GeoXO) satellite course.This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $297.1 thousand. It features the development of two air travel instruments in addition to options for pair of added units. The anticipated duration of functionality for this contract features assistance for 10 years of on-orbit procedures and also five years of on-orbit storing, for an overall of 15 years for each flight design. The work will certainly happen at Lockheed Martin's facilities in Sunnyvale, California, as well as Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the company's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The GeoXO Lightning Mapper will certainly locate, locate, and also measure the intensity, length, and also magnitude of super flashes. The tool is going to proceed important observations supplied due to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Set Geostationary Super Mapmaker. Data from Lightning Mapper will definitely be actually utilized to study severe hurricanes, improve warning lead time for hazardous weather, and deliver earlier indications of being in the offing super strikes to the ground. The data will definitely also be made use of for hurricane strength prediction, wildfire discovery and feedback, precipitation evaluation, and also to relieve air travel dangers.Prognosticators need lightning relevant information from geostationary arena considering that the data are offered where other resources are much more minimal, particularly over oceans and in hilly and also rural areas. The data are also available much more often than nearby radar as well as filler in radar coverage gaps.The deal extent features the jobs and also deliverables necessary to make, evaluate, develop, assemble, combine, exam, validate, as well as evaluate the lightning mapper device besides supporting the launch offering and preserving the device ground help tools as well as assisting goal functions at the NOAA Satellite Workflow Resource in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO System is actually the follow-on to the GOES-R Series Program. The GeoXO gps body are going to advance Earth monitorings from geostationary orbit. The mission will provide necessary relevant information to deal with primary environmental obstacles of the future in support of weather, ocean, and environment functions in the United States. The enhanced abilities from GeoXO will aid resolve our modifying planet and also the evolving necessities of the country's records consumers. Both NASA as well as NOAA are actually operating to guarantee these vital reviews remain in area by the early 2030s when the GOES-R Set nears the end of its functional life time.All together, NOAA and NASA supervise the development, launch, screening, as well as operation of all the gpses in the GeoXO Program. NOAA funds and manages the plan, operations, as well as data items. On behalf of NOAA, NASA as well as business companions establish and also construct the equipments as well as space probe as well as introduce the ancillaries.For additional information on the GeoXO program, go to:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Space Tour Center, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Information, as well as Info Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.