Spire Global is a space-to-cloud data and analytics company that operates one of the world's largest multipurpose satellite constellations. They specialize in tracking global data sets, including maritime, aviation, and weather patterns, using a fleet of over 100 CubeSats. Spire provides data and analytics to various industries and government entities like NASA, ESA, and NOAA, offering services such as maritime tracking, aviation surveillance, and weather forecasting. Their key products include Spire Sense Cloud, Spire AirSafe, and Spire Stratos, and they also offer "Space as a Service" solutions.
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Spire Global will provide rolling access to 12 months of GNSS science data with a 30-day latency under the CSDA contract.
The $6,500,000 contract renewal to Spire Global represents a $500,000 increase from a previous $6,000,000 award in June 2022.
Spire will continue to deliver Earth observation data, associated metadata, and ancillary information from its fully deployed satellite constellation to NASA under the CSDA contract.
Chuck Cash is Vice President of Federal Sales at Spire and supports the CSDA Program as providing essential Earth observation data that helps address challenges faced by U.S. government agencies and researchers, including climate change.
Data delivered by Spire under the CSDA contract will include GNSS radio occultation (GNSS-RO) soundings usable for assimilation into weather models to improve global weather forecasting accuracy.
Spire was awarded a $6.5 million, 12-month contract renewal to continue participation in NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program.
Spire has provided Earth observation data to NASA’s CSDA Program since 2018 as one of the original CSDA vendors.
The $6,500,000 contract renewal represents a $500,000 increase from Spire’s previous $6,000,000 award in June 2022.
Spire Space Services enables organizations to leverage Spire Global’s established infrastructure to deploy payloads and scale a constellation using Spire’s development, manufacturing, launch, and operations capabilities.
BlackSky partnered with Spire Global to create a real-time, commercially available AI-driven maritime custody service to detect and track vessels worldwide, estimate cargo, and track activity over time.
Spire’s four additional 16U satellites for GHGSat build upon an initial agreement for three 16U satellites that will launch by the end of 2023.
Spire Space Services targets a $39,000,000,000 total addressable market.
Rocket Lab expected to conduct four launches in the quarter, including a rideshare mission for NASA, Spire, and Telesat that took place on 2023-07-17.
GHGSat ordered four additional 16U satellites from Spire Global for a launch no earlier than 2024.
Spire Global unveiled its 16U platform last year and the 16U is currently the largest satellite offered by the company.
Spire Global operates satellites on behalf of customers under a space-as-a-service business model.
The four 16U satellites are identical to three 16U satellites GHGSat ordered from Spire the previous year for a launch in late 2023.
Spire Space Services provides infrastructure and services that allow organizations to deploy payloads and scale constellations using Spire’s development, manufacturing, launch, and operations capabilities.
Virgin Orbit was scheduled to launch Spire’s first 16U cubesat for NorthStar Earth and Space in mid-2023 before Virgin Orbit collapsed into bankruptcy.
Spire’s contract with GHGSat builds on an initial agreement for three 16U satellites that are scheduled to launch by the end of 2023.