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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Concirrus performed rigorous validation and due diligence on Spire Global’s data prior to establishing the partnership.
Spire Global and Kleos Space of Luxembourg plan to create new satellite-derived products aimed at enhancing maritime safety.
Spire Global built its own UHF ground station network in 2015 while building a constellation of cubesats to gather maritime and weather data.
Spire Global and Kleos Space of Luxembourg plan to create new satellite-derived products aimed at enhancing maritime safety as of 2019-08-06.
San Francisco-based Spire Global operates dozens of cubesats equipped with sensors to gather atmospheric data and receivers to track ships and aircraft.
Spire will provide its proprietary Automatic Identification System (AIS) data to Kleos Space when ship AIS signals are undetected.
Entities using the Spire Data Lake in Luxembourg will be provided with sets of proprietary, differentiating, high-quality data for research and non-commercial product development activities.
Exolaunch is providing launch services and mission management for eight Spire Global satellites scheduled for liftoff 2019-07-05 on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
Spire Global has relied on Exolaunch to arrange launches and oversee integration for dozens of its triple CubeSats since the two companies began working together in 2016.
The Soyuz rocket upper stage on the July mission is planned to deploy satellites into three different sun-synchronous orbits, releasing the primary payload Meteor M2 at 830 km, microsatellites at 580 km, and CubeSats including Spire’s Lemurs at 530 km.
Spire Global launched its 100th satellite in April to supply weather data and to track ships and aircraft.
NOAA awarded contracts with a combined value of more than $8,000,000 in 2018 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire Global under the Commercial Weather Data Pilot to provide GNSS radio occultation data.
Spire Global offered to fly 20 hosted payloads on its satellites within 12 months for 10,000,000 EUR.
On 2019-03-11, Spire Global signed a deal to host reconnaissance payloads from KeyW Holding Corp. on its cubesat constellation.
NOAA is in the second round of its Commercial Weather Data Pilot program with contracts awarded in September 2018 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire.
NASA started a commercial data buy program with contracts announced in August to purchase Earth science data from DigitalGlobe, Planet, and Spire.
Spire Global estimates that 30 satellites launched 2019 could have payload capabilities equivalent to about 300 to 400 satellites of versions launched two to two and a half years earlier.
The first round of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot, using contracts awarded in 2016 to GeoOptics and Spire, concluded that the data fell short of expectations.
Spire Global raised $70,000,000 in a Series C funding round in November 2017.
Spire Global plans to launch 30 to 40 new satellites 2019.