Spire Global

Spire Global, Inc.
Company typePublic
NYSE: SPIR
IndustryData & Analytics, Aerospace
Founded2012 (2012)[1]
FounderPeter Platzer, Joel Spark, Jeroen Cappaert[citation needed]
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
U.S.
Number of locations
8 (2022)[2]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Peter Platzer (CEO)
[3]
ProductsSpire Sense Cloud (Satellite and Terrestrial AIS Data)

Spire AirSafe (Satellite ADS-B Data) Spire Stratos (GPS-RO Data) Spire Forecast (NWP)

Orbital Services
ServicesSatellite-based maritime, aviation, and weather tracking
Number of employees
424[4]
Divisionsspire.com/maritime/

spire.com/weather/ spire.com/aviation/ spire.com/space-services/

spire.com/federal/
Websitespire.com

Spire Global, Inc. is a space-to-cloud data and analytics company that specializes in the tracking of global data sets powered by a large constellation of nanosatellites, such as the tracking of maritime, aviation and weather patterns.[5]

The company currently operates a fleet of more than 110 CubeSats, the second largest commercial constellation by number of satellites,[6] and the largest by number of sensors. The satellites are integrally designed and built in-house. It has launched more than 140 satellites to orbit since its creation.[7]

The company has offices in San Francisco, Boulder, Washington, D.C., Glasgow, Luxembourg, Munich, Singapore, and Cambridge (Ontario).[2]

  1. ^ "Satellite constellation operator Spire Global to go public via $1.6 billion SPAC". March 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Spire website". Retrieved Feb 4, 2022.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference ArdusatRecode was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Spire (Global) Overview". Retrieved May 30, 2022.
  5. ^ "Spire website". Retrieved Jun 27, 2017.
  6. ^ "Nanosats.eu". Retrieved Jun 27, 2017.
  7. ^ "Spire Grows World's Largest Weather Observation Constellation With Launch Of 100th Satellite" (Press release). April 1, 2019.