Occultation

Annular solar eclipse on October 14, 2023 is 6 months away

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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SANTA FE, N.M., April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- States that will see an annular solar eclipse on the morning of October 14th in the US are Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.

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  • In six months, communities all across the western United States will experience an annular solar eclipse, often called a "Ring of Fire" eclipse.
  • SANTA FE, N.M., April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- States that will see an annular solar eclipse on the morning of October 14th in the US are Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
  • An Annular Solar Eclipse is a beautiful and other-worldly sight!
  • At all times during an annular solar eclipse, viewers must use safe eclipse glasses to view this dramatic sight.

Redwire Provides Solar Arrays for New Weather and Climate Research Satellite

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022
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Redwire solar arrays also powered the previous satellite in the series, GNOMES-2, which launched in 2021.

Key Points: 
  • Redwire solar arrays also powered the previous satellite in the series, GNOMES-2, which launched in 2021.
  • GNOMES-3 is part of a 20-satellite constellation that commercial weather satellite operator PlanetiQ plans to have operating in low-Earth orbit by 2024.
  • "The solar arrays Redwire supplied for GNOMES-2 and GNOMES-3 and future radio occultation satellites will lead to improved weather forecasts and climate research," said Tom Campbell, Executive Vice President of Redwire Deployable Solutions.
  • Redwire solar arrays, both traditional rigid arrays and flexible solutions like the Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA), are powering a wide array of spacecraft ranging from weather satellites and the International Space Station to deep space probes.

GeoOptics Applauds Release of NOAA CWDP Report

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Monday, June 29, 2020
Space science, Global Positioning System, Planetary science, Radio occultation, Science, Astronomy, Satellite navigation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Occultation

PASADENA, Calif., June 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoOptics congratulates the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on the release of their Commercial Weather Data Pilot (CWDP) Round 2 Summary and welcomes the agency's commitment to operational purchases of commercial Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) data.

Key Points: 
  • PASADENA, Calif., June 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoOptics congratulates the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on the release of their Commercial Weather Data Pilot (CWDP) Round 2 Summary and welcomes the agency's commitment to operational purchases of commercial Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) data.
  • The report highlights the unique qualities of GeoOptics' commercial Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) data and its ability to improve weather and space weather forecasts around the world.
  • "As today's report demonstrates, commercial satellite data will enable NOAA to make significant improvements in forecasting worldwide within the consistent budget limitations under which it operates," said GeoOptics CEO Conrad Lautenbacher.
  • With our initial CICERO satellites on-orbit,building on a 25-year NASA heritage, GeoOptics is providing the finest quality commercial radio occultation data from space.

GeoOptics Announces the Launch of GeoPRO

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Thursday, April 16, 2020
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PASADENA, Calif., April 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoOptics, Inc. (GeoOptics) announced today the launch of an original radio occultation data processing system called the GeoOptics Processor for Radio Occultation (GeoPRO) that provide even more accurate and timely weather data from its CICERO constellation of radio occultation (RO) satellites.

Key Points: 
  • PASADENA, Calif., April 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoOptics, Inc. (GeoOptics) announced today the launch of an original radio occultation data processing system called the GeoOptics Processor for Radio Occultation (GeoPRO) that provide even more accurate and timely weather data from its CICERO constellation of radio occultation (RO) satellites.
  • GeoOptics has developed GeoPRO as a real-time phase-matching processing system built around the on-demand parallelism enabled by serverless cloud-computing services, sometimes referred to as "Serverless Supercomputing."
  • By optimizing the processing system and running it on massively parallel serverless infrastructure, GeoPRO enables near-real-time phase-matching processing of large quantities of radio occultation data.
  • Data from the new processing system have been made available to scientists around the world and GeoOptics commercial data partners.

AER Licenses UCAR System to Boost Use of GNSS Satellite Data

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Monday, March 9, 2020
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The agreement will enable AER to process satellite data for commercial companies that sell their Earth observation data products to government agencies and other organizations that provide customized environmental information to a range of clients.

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  • The agreement will enable AER to process satellite data for commercial companies that sell their Earth observation data products to government agencies and other organizations that provide customized environmental information to a range of clients.
  • Under the agreement, AER will adapt UCARs SatDAAC software system to process observations from satellites that use a method known as Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation to observe the atmosphere.
  • AER is excited to embark on this collaboration with UCAR to offer services based upon the proven SatDAAC processing system in a commercial mode to companies operating GNSS radio occultation satellites, said AER President Guy Seeley.
  • In 2006, UCAR began producing the first operational GNSS radio occultation data from a specialized constellation of small satellites known as the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC).

GeoOptics Celebrates Two Years of On-orbit Operations

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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
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PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 11, 2018, GeoOptics launched the first of its operational CICERO satellites for atmospheric radio occultation (RO).

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  • PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 11, 2018, GeoOptics launched the first of its operational CICERO satellites for atmospheric radio occultation (RO).
  • RO is a potent technique for sensing the atmosphere for improved weather forecasting accuracy, first proposed by GeoOptics founder and CTO Tom Yunck more than 30 years ago.
  • "We couldn't be happier with how our team has performed over the last two years, both at GeoOptics and at our partners," said GeoOptics CEO Conrad Lautenbacher.
  • For more information on GeoOptics, please visit our website at http://www.geooptics.com .

Spire Announces 5000 Radio Occultation profiles per day

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Monday, September 9, 2019
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Spire Global, one of the world's largest space-powered data and analytics companies, announced today the company is now collecting 5000 Radio Occultation (RO) profiles per day, tripling the global availability of this crucial data.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Spire Global, one of the world's largest space-powered data and analytics companies, announced today the company is now collecting 5000 Radio Occultation (RO) profiles per day, tripling the global availability of this crucial data.
  • Spires achievement of generating 5000 Radio Occultation profiles daily represents the highest volume of RO data ever available for monitoring the Earths weather.
  • Radio Occultation is a pure source of weather data that provides detailed atmospheric metrics without the need for calibration.
  • We want to provide these RO data to the women and men of the worlds meteorological powerhouses that keep us safe every day.