Establishing Space Weather Ground Services within NOAA NESDIS Ground Services Enterprise

NOAA’s GOES-R Ground System (GS) was designed and built to provide ground services for the GOES-R mission and to establish a set of enterprise ground services that can be used for future NESDIS satellite missions. Over the past few years, the GOES-R GS has been extended to include ground services for the Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO) mission and creating a multi-mission framework so future NESDIS satellite missions can easily be added. Existing GOES-R ground services were repurposed to quickly and cost-effectively create a set of SWFO mission services that include satellite command and control and L0 instrument data processing. Reuse of the GOES-R GS takes advantage of NOAA’s investment in its NESDIS enterprise and provides the SWFO mission an avenue to accelerate ground system deployment while reducing mission risk and lowering overall ground system lifecycle costs. SWFO C2 ground services leverage the GEO enterprise architecture and proven GOES-R operational capabilities and processes to meet or exceed SWFO C2 ground services requirements and avoid resource contention amongst missions. This multi-mission approach demonstrates the value of common enterprise ground services and is laying the groundwork for continued GEO enterprise ground services evolution with GeoXO and Space Weather Next.