[P-EM09] Space Weather and Space Climate

[PEM09-03] NOAA’s Space Weather Observations Programs to Provide Continuous Operational Space Weather Capability

★Invited Papers

*Elsayed R Talaat¹ (1.NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service)

The NOAA Space Weather Next (SW Next) Program completed Department of Commerce program approval setting the foundation to support National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) goal of reducing the impact of severe space weather events, which directly responds to the 2020 Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow (PROSWIFT) Act. The PROSWIFT Act directs NOAA and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to enter into agreements to develop space weather spacecraft and instruments. SW Next will ensure observations support the forecasting of space weather events such as geomagnetic storms, ionospheric disturbances, solar wind, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) as well as providing backbone measurements necessary for research. The Space Weather Observations Programs Division, a joint NOAA and NASA office, will manage both the SWFO and SW Next program. The projects under SW Next program will provide for the continuity of the SWFO-L1 mission, as well as other needed and new multi-point observations into the 2030’s to minimize the economic and societal impacts from space weather events.