TechAmerica Space Enterprise Council Board of Directors Meeting

November 14, 2014 NOAA Satellite and Information Service

NOAA Satellite and Information Service Dr. Stephen Volz, Assistant Administrator

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NESDIS Mission

Our mission is to deliver accurate, timely, and reliable satellite observations and integrated products and to

provide long-term stewardship for global environmental data in support of the NOAA mission.

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Supporting NOAAs Mission NOAA is a science-based services agency engaged with the entire Earth system

science enterprise.

Climate Adaptation & Mitigation

Weather Ready Nation

Resilient Coastal Communities &

Economies Healthy Oceans

NOAAs Top Four Priorities: 1. To provide information and services to

make communities more resilient 2. To evolve the National Weather Service 3. To invest in observational infrastructure 4. To achieve organizational excellence

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NESDIS Principal Activities Currently Providing 24/7 On-Orbit Satellite Operations

Geostationary satellites (GOES) Polar-orbiting satellites (POES) Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Jason-2 altimetry satellite Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP)

Acquiring Next Generation Satellites GOESR Satellite Series Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) DSCOVR (Solar Wind Continuity) Jason-3 Altimetry Satellite COSMIC-2 Radio Occultation

Providing Long Term Data Stewardship National Climatic Data Center National Oceanographic Data Center National Geophysical Data Center

Conducting Research and Developing Operations Center for Satellite Applications and Research

GOES POES

JPSS GOES-R DSCOVR

NCDC NCDDC

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Upcoming Launches

NOAAs satellite acquisition programs continue to successfully meet their major milestones as they progress toward their respective launches starting early next year.

Launch schedule: DSCOVR: January 2015 Jason-3: March 2015 GOES-R: early 2016 COSMIC-2: 2016 (first six satellites) JPSS-1: early 2017

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DSCOVR: January 2015 The Deep Space Climate Observatory, DSCOVR, is a Joint NOAA / NASA / DoD

space weather program which will succeed NASAs ACE mission in providing solar wind measurement continuity from the L1 orbit

Will maintain accuracy and improve the lead time for geomagnetic storm warnings, up to one hour in advance

Provides necessary national infrastructure protection for transportation, power grids, telecommunications, and GPS

U.S. Air Force providing launch vehicle through their launch services contract with SpaceX

Launch Commitment Date: January 2015 Pre-Ship Review and Operational Readiness

Review happening this week

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Jason-3: March 2015

Jason-3 will succeed Jason-2 in providing global sea surface height measurements and continuity of a 20-year data record

Joint NOAA / NASA / EUMETSAT / CNES mission for operational satellite oceanography measurements

Crucial to improvements in weather modeling and hurricane intensification

Launch vehicle selected by NASA is the SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1

Launch Commitment Date: March 2015 Next Jason-3 system review is the

Operational Readiness Review scheduled at the end of January 2015

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GOES-R: Next-Generation Data

Next-generation geostationary satellite, GOES-R, is scheduled to launch in 2016.

GOES-R will provide significant improvements in the detection and observation of meteorological phenomena.

In anticipation of new data, the GOES-14 satellite has been operated in super rapid scan mode, which provides one-minute imagery (left panel of video).

This imagery emulates the high-temporal resolution capabilities of GOES-Rs Advanced Baseline Imager.

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GOES Flyout Chart

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COSMIC-2 The Constellation Observing System for

Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate, or COSMIC, mission is a Partnership with Taiwan, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force

Will provide global radio-occultation measurements of ionosphere, temperature and water vapor information to improve weather forecasts

Valuable data due to non-biased quality, accuracy and depth

Shown here is a comparison of sounding distribution over three hour periods between COSMIC and fully-implemented COSMIC-2 (12 satellites)

Launch in 2016 of the first set of six COSMIC-2 satellites

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JPSS: Next-Generation Data

The Joint Polar Satellite System, JPSS, ensures continuity of global weather observations and critical environmental data

Delivers real-time data to the National Weather Service, improving the quality of forecasts and enabling improved consistency in public warnings 3 to 7 days in advance of a severe weather event

Provides critical monitoring for hurricanes, droughts, floods, snowstorms and other severe weather events

Advances weather, climate, environmental and oceanographic science through technological improvements in satellite instruments and capabilities Fire detections from the operational Suomi NPP VIIRS Active Fire product in northwestern U.S. on July 24, 2014. Data in various user-friendly formats are

available from the product evaluation portal at viirsfire.geog.umd.edu.

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Polar Orbit Flyout Chart

Note: Research satellites that contribute polar observations are not shown

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NESDIS: Strategic Initiatives Support NOAAs partnerships with private industry as part of the

Department of Commerces Big Data Initiative Develop a commercial data policy and innovative

business models to assure primary mission functions while maintaining full and open data sharing

Plan for more robust systems architecture at the enterprise level and plan for satellite architectures beyond GOES-R and JPSS, with demonstrations and developments completed well in advance of the need date

Enterprise ground system to standardize product distribution, access, archiving and compression, and to expedite the incorporation of new observations

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NESDIS: Looking Beyond FY2015 Move toward a system that is flexible, responsive to emerging

technologies, and economically sustainable Enhance program management structures to minimize overhead,

simplify interfaces, and enable flexibility in execution and acquisitions Utilize partnerships to leverage investments in science and technology

that enable more frequent refresh opportunities Leverage partnerships and collaborations in a systematic and strategic

way to enable the NESDIS vision Increase accessibility to information to better serve satellite data

communities Attract technical, science, and management talent to build the

foundational capability for the future

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Questions?

Slide Number 1NESDIS MissionSupporting NOAAs MissionNESDIS Principal ActivitiesUpcoming LaunchesDSCOVR: January 2015Jason-3: March 2015GOES-R: Next-Generation DataGOES Flyout ChartCOSMIC-2JPSS: Next-Generation DataPolar Orbit Flyout ChartNESDIS: Strategic InitiativesNESDIS: Looking Beyond FY2015Slide Number 15