{"id":207193,"date":"2025-02-24T20:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/bae-wins-230-6-million-contract-for-space-weather-program"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:09:20","slug":"bae-wins-230-6-million-contract-for-space-weather-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/bae-wins-230-6-million-contract-for-space-weather-program","title":{"rendered":"BAE wins $230.6 million contract for space weather program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bae-wins-230-6-million-contract-for-space-weather-program2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 BAE Systems won a $230.6 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nesdis.noaa.gov\/news\/nasa-awards-delivery-order-noaas-space-weather-program\">NASA contract<\/a> to deliver spacecraft for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency\u2019s Lagrange 1 Series space weather project.<\/p>\n<p>Under the firm-fixed-price award, announced Feb. 21, BAE Systems <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/bae-systems-wins-approval-for-ball-aerospace-acquisition\/\">Space &amp; Mission Systems<\/a>, formerly Ball Aerospace, will develop Lagrange 1 Series spacecraft, integrate instruments, and support flight and mission operations. Contract-related work, scheduled to begin this month, will be performed in Boulder, Colorado, through January 2034.<\/p>\n<p>The Lagrange 1 Series, part of NOAA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nesdis.noaa.gov\/our-satellites\/future-programs\/space-weather-next\">Space Weather Next<\/a> program, is designed to provide continuity of coronal imagery and upstream solar wind measurements, with spacecraft expected to launch in 2029 and 2032. BAE Systems also is building the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/ball-noaa-swfo-l1\/\">Space Weather Follow On Lagrange 1<\/a> mission set to fly no earlier than September on NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-delays-launch-of-heliophysics-missions\/\">Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 BAE Systems won a $230.6 million NASA contract to deliver spacecraft for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency\u2019s Lagrange 1 Series space weather project. Under the firm-fixed-price award, announced Feb. 21, BAE Systems Space &amp; Mission Systems, formerly Ball Aerospace, will develop Lagrange 1 Series spacecraft, integrate instruments, and support flight and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}