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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.
NOAA awarded two-year indefinite delivery–indefinite quantity contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global with a total ceiling of $23,000,000.
GeoOptics and Spire Global developed, manufactured, and operate satellites to gather atmospheric temperature, pressure, and water vapor observations for operational weather forecasts.
Firefly Aerospace signed a Launch Services Agreement with Spire Global to launch Lemur spacecraft on multiple Alpha missions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 CWDP Round 2, NOAA awarded contracts to GeoOptics, Spire Global, and PlanetIQ.
Only GeoOptics and Spire submitted radio occultation data for CWDP Round 2 because PlanetIQ had not launched its first satellite.
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 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 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 formed Spire Maritime in 2018 to develop vessel tracking and monitoring services.
Spire Global created a maritime business unit focused on AIS data and analytics in 2019.
Spire Maritime expanded into Asia in 2019.