{"id":48407,"date":"2025-09-16T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planetiq-wins-noaas-largest-single-commercial-satellite-weather-data-purchase-to-date\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:00:28","slug":"planetiq-wins-noaas-largest-single-commercial-satellite-weather-data-purchase-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planetiq-wins-noaas-largest-single-commercial-satellite-weather-data-purchase-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"PlanetiQ Wins NOAA\u2019s Largest Single Commercial Satellite Weather Data Purchase to Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/strong>\u2018s (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) has purchased $24.3 million worth of commercial and space weather data from <strong>PlanetiQ<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The award, issued under the Commercial Data Program\u2019s Radio Occultation Data Buy 2 (RODB-2), represents NOAA\u2019s single largest commercial satellite weather data purchase to date and a threefold increase from PlanetiQ\u2019s most recent data award from NOAA.<\/p>\n<p>The contract, announced Tuesday, requires PlanetiQ to deliver 7,000 GNSS-RO profiles per day, including 500 enhanced high-signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) profiles, as well as 2,500 low-latency total electron content (TEC) tracks daily, beginning on September 18. GNSS-RO data is used by NOAA, NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, and international government weather agencies for operational and research purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ability to provide enhanced high-SNR profiles, at seven times the SNR of any other commercial company, sets us apart,\u201d Chris McCormick, president and chairman of PlanetiQ said in the announcement. \u201cI founded PlanetiQ because radio occultation is one of the few technologies I\u2019ve worked with that tangibly improves the human condition. It\u2019s gratifying to see this capability recognized and scaled.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2018s (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) has purchased $24.3 million worth of commercial and space weather data from PlanetiQ. The award, issued under the Commercial Data Program\u2019s Radio Occultation Data Buy 2 (RODB-2), represents NOAA\u2019s single largest commercial satellite weather data purchase to date and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}