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 flew four three-unit cubesats on the Soyuz-2.1b launch, two equipped with intersatellite crosslinks and two equipped with advanced onboard computing to enable machine learning algorithms.
The U.S. Air Force established a formal agreement with Spire Global in early July 2020 and began assimilating Spire data into its own operations thereafter.
Radio occultation data reduced ECMWF’s 24-hour forecast errors by about four percent in early 2020 prior to the addition of COSMIC-2 and Spire Global data.
Spire Global provided free radio occultation data earlier in 2020 to ECMWF, the United Kingdom’s Met Office, and the U.S. Air Force to help offset a loss of aircraft-derived data.
Spire Global’s Glasgow, Scotland operations raised 16,600,000 EUR in 2019.
Only GeoOptics and Spire submitted radio occultation data for CWDP Round 2 because PlanetIQ had not launched its first satellite.
In CWDP Round 2, NOAA awarded contracts to GeoOptics, Spire Global, and PlanetIQ.
Spire CEO Peter Platzer considers the CWDP Round 2 report to be very good news for NOAA’s efforts to improve weather forecasts, for people dealing with weather uncertainty, for the commercial weather data industry broadly, and for Spire and GeoOptics specifically.
In 2018 NASA planned to purchase Earth observation data from Maxar Technologies, Planet and Spire as part of a pilot program to evaluate commercial data utility.
Spire Global formed Spire Maritime in 2018 to develop vessel tracking and monitoring services.
Spire Maritime is partnering with industry experts like VesselBot and harnessing machine learning to expand its product line.
VesselBot aims to collaborate with Spire Maritime to create innovative digital solutions that solve maritime operational problems and enable operational efficiencies in the maritime market.
Spire Global plans to work with VesselBot to develop products based on Spire's automatic identification system (AIS) data.
VesselBot expects the products developed with Spire to provide customers with more precise monitoring and enhanced visibility onshore and onboard, optimize vessel performance, and reduce time in ports.
Spire Maritime launched its first weather product for the maritime industry in January 2019.
Spire Global created a maritime business unit focused on AIS data and analytics in 2019.
Spire Maritime expanded into Asia in 2019.
Exolaunch plans to send four Spire Global cubesats into low-inclination orbits on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle later 2020.
Under current plans, Spire may be able to obtain NOAA’s 20,000 daily radio occultations goal by the end of 2020.
NOAA awarded contracts in 2018 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire as part of its second Commercial Weather Data Pilot.