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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GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire are providing GPS radio occultation data that measure the refraction of GPS signals to produce temperature and pressure profiles for weather forecasting models.
DigitalGlobe and Planet are providing imagery to NASA under the agency’s commercial data buy program, and Spire is providing GPS radio occultation data.
Exolaunch has integrated more than 30 Spire Lemur cubesats on multiple launches with additional integrations planned for 2019.
In September, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded more than $8,000,000 to GeoOptics, PlanetiQ, and Spire to provide GPS radio occultation data from current or planned constellations.
Spire has had 37 of its more than 80 satellites launched from the ISS or Cygnus cargo spacecraft.
Spire was the first company to deploy cubesats from a Cygnus cargo vehicle in November 2016 after that spacecraft departed the ISS and moved into a higher orbit.
Spire will launch four three-unit Lemur cubesats on a PSLV in March 2019 under a deal brokered by NanoRacks.
NASA started a smallsat constellation data purchase pilot program and announced awards in August 2018 to DigitalGlobe, Planet, and Spire to purchase data from their constellations.
NASA’s Earth Science Division issued agreements to purchase data from Planet, DigitalGlobe, and Spire under contracts with a maximum combined value of $7,000,000 over five years.
Spire launched its first satellite in 2013.
Spire will provide a constellation of 20 payloads in orbit for as little as 10,000,000 EUR.
Spire spent in the range of 100,000,000 EUR to develop its constellation infrastructure.
The launch included two Lemur-2 cubesats for Spire, which operates a constellation of Lemur-2 spacecraft to collect weather data and to track vessels and aircraft.
NOAA awarded contracts valued at a little more than $1,000,000 in September 2016 to GeoOptics and Spire in round one of the Commercial Weather Data Pilot program.
NOAA issued contracts to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire to provide GPS radio occultation weather data from satellites currently in orbit or planned for launch in the coming months.
Spire provided data to NOAA under the program’s earlier contract and received $1,425,000 in round two.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded more than $8,000,000 in contracts on 2018-09-17 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire in the second round of its Commercial Weather Data Pilot program.
NASA will buy Earth science data from DigitalGlobe, Planet, and Spire, with contracts for those data purchases still being negotiated.
Spire launched 47 satellites in 2017 using a cubesat design developed internally and incrementally improved over several years.
Spire Global builds a constellation of cubesats that provide weather and tracking services from Glasgow.