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Spire Global

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commercialFounded 2012
United States
spire.com
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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.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalNarrative GeneralNov 23, 2020GeoOptics and Spire Global win NOAA weather data contracts

NOAA awarded two-year indefinite delivery–indefinite quantity contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global with a total ceiling of $23,000,000.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalOrg RelationshipNov 23, 2020GeoOptics and Spire Global win NOAA weather data contracts

GeoOptics and Spire Global developed, manufactured, and operate satellites to gather atmospheric temperature, pressure, and water vapor observations for operational weather forecasts.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalTechnical ProductNov 23, 2020GeoOptics and Spire Global win NOAA weather data contracts

Firefly Aerospace signed a Launch Services Agreement with Spire Global to launch Lemur spacecraft on multiple Alpha missions.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalNarrative GeneralOct 20, 2020Firefly Aerospace Announces New Customer Agreements, Completes Stage 1 Acceptance Testing Ahead of First Alpha Launch

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.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalNarrative GeneralSep 29, 2020Kepler launches first internally produced satellites

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.

Mentioned as: spire globalNoiseAug 14, 2020Weather models improve with COSMIC-2 and Spire Global data

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.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalNarrative GeneralAug 14, 2020Weather models improve with 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.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalTechnical ProductAug 14, 2020Weather models improve with COSMIC-2 and Spire Global data

Spire Global’s Glasgow, Scotland operations raised 16,600,000 EUR in 2019.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalOrg RelationshipJul 22, 2020Startups in U.K., Switzerland, led Europe in space investment last year

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.

Mentioned as: SpireTechnical ProductJun 26, 2020NOAA to buy commercial radio occultation data for operations

In CWDP Round 2, NOAA awarded contracts to GeoOptics, Spire Global, and PlanetIQ.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalTechnical ProductJun 26, 2020NOAA to buy commercial radio occultation data for operations

Only GeoOptics and Spire submitted radio occultation data for CWDP Round 2 because PlanetIQ had not launched its first satellite.

Mentioned as: SpireTechnical ProductJun 26, 2020NOAA to buy commercial radio occultation data for operations

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.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalOrg RelationshipApr 17, 2020NASA awards Planet $7 million Earth imagery contract

Spire Global plans to work with VesselBot to develop products based on Spire's automatic identification system (AIS) data.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalOrg RelationshipApr 15, 2020Spire and VesselBot focus on vessel tracking and monitoring

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.

Mentioned as: SpireOrg RelationshipApr 15, 2020Spire and VesselBot focus on vessel tracking and monitoring

Spire Maritime is partnering with industry experts like VesselBot and harnessing machine learning to expand its product line.

Mentioned as: Spire MaritimeOrg RelationshipApr 15, 2020Spire and VesselBot focus on vessel tracking and monitoring

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.

Mentioned as: Spire MaritimeOrg RelationshipApr 15, 2020Spire and VesselBot focus on vessel tracking and monitoring

Spire Global formed Spire Maritime in 2018 to develop vessel tracking and monitoring services.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalNarrative GeneralApr 15, 2020Spire and VesselBot focus on vessel tracking and monitoring

Spire Global created a maritime business unit focused on AIS data and analytics in 2019.

Mentioned as: spire globalNarrative GeneralApr 14, 2020Spire transforms the maritime industry with new data, driving growth and profitability

Spire Maritime expanded into Asia in 2019.

Mentioned as: Spire GlobalNarrative GeneralApr 14, 2020Spire transforms the maritime industry with new data, driving growth and profitability
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