Newest constellation of weather satellites gets flight plan

We begin today talking about the weather. Well not the actual weather itself, but the hardware needed to track it. Recently, NASA selected Lockheed Martin to build he nation’s next generation weather satellite constellation, Geostationary Extended Observations, or GeoXO. It’s a contract with an estimated value of just over $2.25 billion. To find out what the GeoXO mission is all about, I spoke to Dylan Powell, Lead Strategist for Weather and Earth Science at Lockheed Martin.