SWFO Program Status and Planned Product Improvements

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Program will ensure critical operational space weather measurements of coronal mass ejections and solar wind continue to be available. In 2025, the SWFO-L1 spacecraft will launch as a rideshare with the National Aeronautic and Space Administration's (NASA) Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) to Lagrange-1 (L1). Together, these spacecraft will provide the first operational coronagraph imagery, suprathermal ion and electron data, and experimental high-energy electrons and solar wind composition data available in near-real-time. The SWFO mission will also ensure the continuity of existing operational products by continuing the history of operational L1 magnetic field and thermal plasma data. Additionally, a coronagraph will be manifest on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-Series U (GOES-U) for operational resiliency in 2024. We will present an update on the status of the SWFO Program spaceflight and ground segment development, an overview of the existing products, and a preliminary list of new products being envisioned for deployment in 2025 and beyond.