Monday, 13 January 2025: 9:30 AM
242 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) works to provide timely
access to global environmental data, products, and services. These data support the space weather
forecasting enterprise by providing reliable, high quality data for modeling, for improving our
understanding of the Earth-Sun environment, and for publicly disseminated warnings. This presentation
will cover agency plans and updates for the Space Weather Next and Space Weather Follow On (SWFO)
programs, showing how NOAA’s observations are integrated with partner research observations. It will
also cover the comprehensive NOAA High-Level Space Weather Strategy effort to strengthen cross-
NOAA engagement to advance end-to-end space weather capability.
Reliably monitoring space weather from multiple observing points can protect the nation’s valuable,
vulnerable infrastructure. In 2024 NOAA launched the first compact coronagraph aboard GOES-U and is
preparing for the planned launch of SWFO-L1 later in 2025. New capabilities at L1, L5 and geostationary
earth orbit will provide additional insight and understanding, and improve forecasts. Growing user
needs are driving next generation satellite architecture investment decisions to enable longer-lead times
and more accurate solar storm warnings, provide better forecasts of the location of the auroral oval and
probability and deliver access to thermosphere imagery and in situ observations. NOAA must especially
work with the aviation, space commerce, energy, and defense sectors to better understand their
sensitivities to the space weather environment. NOAA is soliciting feedback from industry and
interagency partners on which space weather products are most impactful.
access to global environmental data, products, and services. These data support the space weather
forecasting enterprise by providing reliable, high quality data for modeling, for improving our
understanding of the Earth-Sun environment, and for publicly disseminated warnings. This presentation
will cover agency plans and updates for the Space Weather Next and Space Weather Follow On (SWFO)
programs, showing how NOAA’s observations are integrated with partner research observations. It will
also cover the comprehensive NOAA High-Level Space Weather Strategy effort to strengthen cross-
NOAA engagement to advance end-to-end space weather capability.
Reliably monitoring space weather from multiple observing points can protect the nation’s valuable,
vulnerable infrastructure. In 2024 NOAA launched the first compact coronagraph aboard GOES-U and is
preparing for the planned launch of SWFO-L1 later in 2025. New capabilities at L1, L5 and geostationary
earth orbit will provide additional insight and understanding, and improve forecasts. Growing user
needs are driving next generation satellite architecture investment decisions to enable longer-lead times
and more accurate solar storm warnings, provide better forecasts of the location of the auroral oval and
probability and deliver access to thermosphere imagery and in situ observations. NOAA must especially
work with the aviation, space commerce, energy, and defense sectors to better understand their
sensitivities to the space weather environment. NOAA is soliciting feedback from industry and
interagency partners on which space weather products are most impactful.
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