The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration intends to dramatically increase commercial weather data purchases. In a few years, for example, NOAA will seek commercial radio occultation data in tropical, equatorial orbit to replace observations currently being provided by the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate-2 (COSMIC-2), launched in 2019.
In addition to radio occultation for terrestrial and space weather applications, NOAA is evaluating data gathered by commercial microwave sounders and global navigation satellite system reflectometers.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
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