RFI-SWO-GEOHEOIns-2024 - Question and Answer Set for Amendment 4 Document.pdf

This document is a Questions and Answers set related to Amendment 4 of a Request for Information (RFI) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for Space Weather (SW) Next Instruments for Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) observations.

The RFI is soliciting vendor interest and capabilities to produce instruments for a potential future Request for Proposal (RFP) to procure, develop and fabricate instruments for the SW Next Program in GEO and HEO. The notional launch date for both GEO and HEO observatories is 2032, with a mission life of 7 years for GEO and 5 years for HEO. The RFI lists the required instruments for both GEO and HEO, including in-situ particle flux sensors, magnetometers, imagers, and irradiance sensors. In response to a submitted question, the due date for RFI responses has been extended from June 16, 2024 to June 21, 2024 at 11:59 PM ET.