GeoXO Industry Collaboration

Industry partners are critical to meeting the GeoXO mission. NOAA and NASA will work with commercial partners to design and build the GeoXO spacecraft, instruments, and data processing and distribution services. Instrument definition and design development studies are underway.

GeoXO Procurement Notices

Requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposals (RFPs) will be posted here.

November 20, 2020: GeoXO Imager Phase A Study Request for Proposals
April 30, 2021: GeoXO Sounder (GXS) Phase A Study Request for Proposals
August 25, 2021: GeoXO Ocean Color (OCX) Phase A Study Request for Proposals
October 27, 2021: GeoXO Lightning Mapper (LMX) Phase A Study Request for Proposals
January 3, 2022: GeoXO Atmospheric Composition (ACX) Phase A Study Request for Proposals
February 24, 2022: GeoXO Spacecraft Phase A Study Request for Proposals
August 16, 2022: GeoXO Imager (GXI) Instrument Implementation Request for Proposals
February 10, 2023: GeoXO Sounder (GXS) Instrument Implementation Request for Proposals
July 18, 2023: GeoXO Lightning Mapper (LMX) Instrument Implementation Request for Proposals
August 31, 2023: GeoXO Ocean Color (OCX) Instrument Implementation Request for Proposals
September 29, 2023: GeoXO Spacecraft Implementation Request for Proposals
October 25, 2023: GeoXO Atmospheric Composition (ACX) Instrument Implementation Request for Proposals

Phase A Studies

NASA has awarded several contracts for "Phase A" studies as part of GeoXO formulation activities. These definition-phase study and development contracts will help design the instrument and spacecraft concepts, mature necessary technologies, and help define potential performance, risks, costs, and development schedule. The results of the studies will be used to set performance requirements for implementation contracts.

On March 31, 2021, NASA awarded GeoXO Imager (GXI) Phase A study contracts to L3Harris Technologies, Inc., and Raytheon Company. Each company will conduct a one-year study to develop an infrared and visible imaging instrument concept and mature necessary technology.
On September, 30, 2021 NASA selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colorado, for a GeoXO Sounder (GXS) Phase A Study to conduct a definition-phase study of a geostationary hyperspectral infrared Sounder instrument.
On September, 30, 2021 NASA selected L3Harris Technologies Inc. of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a GeoXO Sounder (GXS) Phase A Study to conduct a definition-phase study of a geostationary hyperspectral infrared Sounder instrument.
On April 20, 2022, NASA selected Northrop Grumman Corporation System Sector of Azusa, California, and Lockheed Martin Corporation of Littleton, Colorado, to conduct GeoXO Lightning Mapper (LMX) Phase A Studies. Each company will conduct a twenty-month definition-phase study of a geostationary lightning mapper instrument.
On May 17, 2022, NASA selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, and Raytheon Intelligence & Space of El Segundo, California, to conduct GeoXO Atmospheric Composition (ACX) instrument Phase A Studies. Each company will conduct a twenty-month definition-phase study of a geostationary atmospheric composition instrument.
On May 26, 2022, NASA selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, and Raytheon Intelligence & Space of El Segundo, California, to conduct GeoXO Ocean Color (OCX) instrument Phase A Studies. Each company will conduct a twenty-month definition-phase study of a geostationary ocean color instrument.
On July 26, 2022, NASA awarded GeoXO Spacecraft Phase A Study contracts to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, and Maxar Space LLC of Palo Alto, California. Each company will conduct a ten-month definition-phase study of a geostationary GeoXO spacecraft.

Development Contracts

In 2023, NASA began awarding contracts to develop the GeoXO instruments and spacecraft. These contracts include the tasks and deliverables necessary to design, analyze, develop, fabricate, integrate, test, verify, evaluate, support launch, supply and maintain the ground support equipment, and support mission operations at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility.