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 launched two GNSS Reflectometry cubesats on 2019-12-11 on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Two Spire satellites equipped with bistatic radars observe how Global Navigation Satellite System signals scatter after bouncing off Earth surface features as part of GNSS reflectometry work.
With a second pair of GNSS Reflectometry cubesats, Spire plans to provide sustained monitoring of soil moisture and ocean winds.
NASA announced plans in 2018 to purchase Earth science data from Maxar, Planet, and Spire.
Spire Global builds its own satellites and operates a network of 70 ground station antennas across 17 countries.
Spire Global deploys a satellite approximately once a week, schedules a launch about every eight weeks, and conducts about 45,000 satellite ground station contacts per month.
Spire Global opened its sixth office in Washington, D.C., with a team of 10 employees.
Spire Global established a Washington office after finding its U.S. headquarters in San Francisco and its Boulder, Colorado location were insufficient to serve government customers.
Spire Global paid Mercury Public Affairs, LLC $90,000 in 2016 for Washington representation.
Spire plans to launch additional satellites later in 2020 to complete the AirSafe rollout.
By 2021 Spire’s constellation will be large enough to observe any aircraft’s latitude, longitude, altitude, and time and provide reports within 15 minutes.
Spire launched its 100th satellite in April 2019.
Spire has launched more than 100 cubesats, with more than 80 in operation today.
Spire raised a new funding round of more than $40,000,000 to fund development of data products and expansion into the Asia-Pacific market.
Spire launched its first analytics product, a weather forecasting service for maritime customers, earlier 2019-09.
Spire Global announced over $40,000,000 in new funding on 2019-09-25 from strategic partners ITOCHU, Mitsui, and Scottish Investment Bank and financial investors led by the GPO Fund, Perennial Value Management Limited, and Bessemer Ventures.
Spire provides global organizations and national meteorology centers like NOAA with tools intended to improve weather forecasts for public safety.
Spire Global’s maritime business showed a 160 percent increase in 2018 revenue compared with 2017.
Spire Maritime was launched as a separate Spire Global business unit in February 2019.
Spire Global and Concirrus agreed on 2019-08-13 to share data and develop new products.