National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) × PlanetiQ
NOAA's NESDIS awarded PlanetiQ a $24.3 million contract, its single largest commercial satellite weather data purchase to date under the Radio Occultation Data Buy 2 (RODB-2) program. [60] The agreement is for the delivery of 7,000 GNSS-RO profiles and 2,500 TEC tracks per day to support weather forecasting and space weather monitoring. [60] This represents a more than threefold increase in data delivery from PlanetiQ's previous NOAA contract and adds new data products like enhanced high-signal-to-noise ratio profiles. [60, 64]
The asset
A delivery order for commercial weather and space weather data, including 7,000 daily GNSS-Radio Occultation profiles and 2,500 daily Total Electron Content (TEC) tracks.
- 7k GNSS-RO profiles per day
- 3k TEC tracks per day
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- satellite weather data
- Modalities
- satellite_data, weather_data
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Personal data
- no_pii
What it means if you hold data
This record-setting purchase signals a major commitment by government agencies to operationalize commercial satellite data as a core component of public weather forecasting infrastructure. It validates the business model of private satellite constellations providing mission-critical data to supplement and enhance government systems.