Tomorrow.io provides the Air Force with global weather and ocean data for several years $19.3 million Contract funded by commercial weather data pilot program
BOSTON, September 12, 2022 The Tomorrow Companies Inc. (“Tomorrow.io”), developer of a leading platform for global weather and climate certainty, has completed the assembly and testing of its first precipitation radar and delivered the satellite integration payload to Astro Digital. Tomorrow.io was awarded with one perennial $19.3 million contract last year by the US Air Force, funded through the Air Force’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot Program, to support deployment of the company’s first four satellites.
Tomorrow.io has selected Astro Digital’s Corvus-XL satellite platform for the first two satellites in its constellation. Delivery of the radar payload after Tomorrow.io and the Air Force were successful Critical Design Review Earlier this year, Tomorrow.io sees the launch of its first satellite in early 2023, with a full constellation expected in orbit during 2025.
Tomorrow.io will provide operational satellite data as a service to the US Department of Defense and government agencies worldwide, while also feeding the data into its proprietary modeling suite that powers its weather and climate security platform, used by hundreds of corporate organizations to proactively address weather-related challenges.
Precipitation measurements are critical to weather forecasting and are ranked as a top priority by the Intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations of 152 Earth Observations. Radar provides detailed observations of precipitation no other sensor can see, but much of the world lacks reliable ground-based radar coverage, including many areas of interest to the Department of Defense.
Tomorrow.io plans to launch a constellation of approximately 30 small satellites to provide high-resolution global coverage of 3-D precipitation and other key parameters – revisiting every point on Earth every day…
