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 NOAA with 3,300 radio occultation profiles per day.
The $9,900,000 award under NOAA Delivery Order 5 is the third multi-million-dollar NOAA contract Spire Global has received in FY22.
GHGSat expects to manage three hosted payloads on Spire satellites as part of its growing constellation to provide more facility-level emissions measurements at a very low detection threshold.
Spire will launch three 16U satellites in 2023 that will carry GHGSat payloads.
Spire will provide GHGSat with an API to receive GHGSat data and operate its payloads.
Spire Space Services offers subscription-based access to space that removes the high upfront cost of building and maintaining space infrastructure.
Spire Global was awarded Delivery Order 5 under an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract issued by the National Oceanographic and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) for commercially available space-based radio occultation (RO).
Spire Global will provide NOAA with 3,300 radio occultation (RO) profiles per day.
The award for Delivery Order 5 to Spire Global is valued at $9,900,000.
Spire Global will build three 16U cubesats launching in 2023 to expand Canadian greenhouse gas-monitoring operator GHGSat’s constellation.
Spire will launch three 16U satellites in 2023 that will carry GHGSat’s payload.
NorthStar previously ordered three larger SSA satellites from Thales Alenia Space but canceled that agreement in favor of using Spire to accelerate its constellation plans.
The Spire-built cubesats are scheduled to launch in late 2023.
Spire operates an end-to-end manufacturing facility, a global ground station network, and a mission operations system that support hosted payloads.
Spire will provide GHGSat with an API to receive GHGSat data and operate its payloads.
NorthStar plans to deploy its first space situational awareness payloads in low Earth orbit in early 2023 onboard three spacecraft that Spire Global is developing.
On 2022-09-14, Spire outlined potential plans to raise up to $180,000,000 by selling shares.
The three Spire-built satellites are slated to join the six similarly sized spacecraft that GHGSat currently operates in low Earth orbit.
The cubesats built by Spire will be dedicated to GHGSat and will not host other payloads.
Spire will launch three 16U satellites in 2023 that will carry GHGSat payloads.