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 operates more than 100 satellites in orbit equipped with Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) transponders.
In April 2021, Spire will host Spaceloop’s communication software on a software-defined radio aboard a LEMUR 3U satellite to begin live communication tests.
By June 2021, Spire will fly Orbitare’s first full-duplex Spaceloop communications payload developed in cooperation with Spire to showcase additional communications capabilities.
The early Spaceloop demonstrator missions will leverage Spire’s software-defined radio infrastructure to host Orbitare’s communications protocols as early as April 2021.
Optimise’s algorithm will further develop as it receives more high-quality data from Spire, improving output recommendations.
SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission delivered 143 payloads, including satellites from Spire, Capella, NanoAvionics, Spaceflight, HawkEye, PlanetiQ, Astro Digital, D-Orbit, and 10 Starlink satellites.
The European Investment Bank financing for Spire Global was announced on 2020-12-03 at the Web Summit conference.
Spire Global raised 20,000,000 EUR from the European Investment Bank.
Spire Global plans to use the 20,000,000 EUR to continue development of a satellite constellation that provides weather and tracking data and to develop new software applications.
Spire Global manages a constellation of over 100 Lemur cubesats equipped with multiple sensors that can track ships at sea, track aircraft in flight, and obtain atmospheric data by monitoring signals from global navigation satellites like GPS as they travel through the atmosphere.
The combined value of the two-year indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contracts awarded to GeoOptics and Spire Global is $23,000,000.
NOAA awarded initial task orders to both GeoOptics and Spire Global on 2020-11-20, and the individual values of those orders remain undisclosed.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded its first contracts on 2020-11-20 to GeoOptics and Spire Global to purchase radio occultation data.
GeoOptics and Spire Global have developed, manufactured, and operated satellites to gather atmospheric temperature, pressure, and water vapor observations for input into operational weather forecasts.
GeoOptics and Spire Global developed, manufactured, and operate satellites to gather atmospheric temperature, pressure, and water vapor observations for operational weather forecasts.
Spire Global operates a constellation of more than 100 Lemur cubesats with multiple sensors to track ships at sea, track aircraft in flight, and obtain atmospheric data by observing how signals from global navigation satellites travel through the atmosphere.
NOAA awarded initial task orders to GeoOptics and Spire Global on 2020-11-20 and did not disclose the value of those task orders.
NOAA awarded two-year indefinite delivery–indefinite quantity contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global with a total ceiling of $23,000,000.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded contracts on 2020-11-20 to purchase radio occultation data from GeoOptics and Spire Global.
Firefly Aerospace signed a Launch Services Agreement with Spire Global to launch Lemur spacecraft on multiple Alpha missions.