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Spire will provide a constellation of 20 payloads in orbit for as little as 10,000,000 EUR.
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 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.
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.
Spire provided data to NOAA under the program’s earlier contract and received $1,425,000 in round two.
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.
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.
Companies participating in the outreach event included L3 Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, OneWeb, SES, Spire Global, Viasat, ExoAnalytic Solutions, and Hawkeye 360.
The Electron mission also carries two Lemur-2 satellites from Spire and one satellite built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems for GeoOptics.
Sensors on the GRACE-FO spacecraft will collect GPS radio occultation data for atmospheric sounding similar to data provided by the U.S.-Taiwan COSMIC constellation and commercial satellites operated by Spire.