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 Space Services has a total addressable market of $39,000,000,000 and provides a subscription model to deploy and scale satellite constellations.
Spire Global launched three satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2023-04-14.
Spire launched ADLER-2, the second satellite developed in partnership between the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) and Findus Venture GmbH.
Spire launched ADLER-2, the second satellite developed in partnership between the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) and Findus Venture GmbH.
Spire will launch additional satellites on SpaceX Transporter missions later 2023.
Spire launched one satellite on Transporter-7 to support its own data solutions business that tracks maritime, aviation, and weather activity from space.
Spire’s data solutions constellation is fully deployed with high asset utilization and requires about $10–12 million per year of capital expenditures to maintain.
Spire launched its initial PRO payloads in January 2023, which were the first PRO payloads sent to orbit by a private company.
One of Spire’s space services satellites on Transporter-7 was for Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and was equipped with a hyperspectral camera and a soil moisture sensor.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded similar commercial radio-frequency data contracts to Kleos Space and Spire Global.
HawkEye 360, Kleos Space, Spire Global, and Maxar Technologies were selected last year for cooperative agreements that give the NRO access to their business operations and help the agency assess the quality of commercially available data.
Spire won the contract as part of the NRO’s Strategic Commercial Enhancements Broad Agency Announcement program in September 2022.
Spire operates over 40 satellites that help detect and geolocate signal interference, jamming, and spoofing.
Kleos Space and Spire Global were among six companies the National Reconnaissance Office selected last year for cooperative agreements that provide the agency access to the companies’ business plans and help the agency assess the quality of commercially available data.
Spire operates 40 satellites with geolocation capabilities that can track GPS jamming events.
Spire Global will provide NOAA with ionospheric measurements as part of its radio occultation data deliverables.
Spire Global operates a fully deployed constellation of more than 100 satellites that powers its radio occultation data production.
Spire Global could achieve up to 100,000 radio occultation profiles per day within 18 to 24 months.
Spire Global was awarded a total of four NOAA contracts in fiscal year 2022 valued at $23,600,000.
Spire Global was awarded an IDIQ contract by NOAA to compete for orders under a $59,000,000 ceiling as part of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Program Radio Occultation Data Buy II.