SAN FRANCISCO — Lynker Space is working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to offer space-weather forecasts tailored for operators of power grids and other elements of U.S. critical infrastructure.

The news comes as NASA prepares for the Sept. 24 launch of two heliophysics missions and a NOAA space weather observatory on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Working together, the NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the NOAA Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 are expected to provide detailed observation of solar activity and improve space weather forecasts.

In the past, the problem for terrestrial infrastructure operators has been making sense of space weather forecasts, which te

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