NOAA's Commercial Weather Data Pilot Takes Flight

摘要

Bor decades, NOAA has had a robust, mutually beneficial relationship with our private sector aerospace industry partners. Commercial space services are rapidly changing and new approaches are emerging for the development and operation of satellites, drawing many more data service providers into the Earth observation market. To guide the agency's efforts to capitalize on the opportunities offered by these changes, NOAA released a policy framework earlier this year to acquire new satellite weather data from industry. NOAA's Commercial Space Policy outlines the tools NOAA will use in this effort as well as the principles to guide it.