Spire Global

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Spire Global, Inc.
Private
Founded 2012 (2012)[1]
Founder Peter Platzer, Joel Spark, Jeroen Cappaert[1]
Headquarters San Francisco, California, U.S.
Number of locations
 3 (2015)
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Peter Platzer (CEO)
Russell Muzzolini (CTO)
[1][2]
Number of employees
 50-100[1][3]
Website spire.com

Spire Global, Inc. is an American private company specializing in data gathered from a network of small satellites.[4] It has successfully deployed twelve Earth observation CubeSats into Low Earth orbit. The company has offices in San Francisco, Glasgow, Singapore, and Boulder.

History

Spire was founded in 2012 and opened offices in San Francisco. The company later opened offices in Glasgow, Singapore, and Boulder.[4][5] The company was founded to create ArduSat, a crowd-funded satellite, which was launched on August 3, 2013.[6][7] Crowd funding in the amount of $106,330 was raised via Kickstarter.[8] The startup was incubated at Lemnos Labs[6] and investments totaling $1.5M were made in a seed round by Shasta Ventures, Emerge, Beamonte Investments, Grishin Robotics, and Lemnos Labs.[1][9] On July 29, 2014, Spire announced an additional $25M Series A funding round led by RRE Ventures and backed by Emerge, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Qihoo, 360 Technology, and Moose Capital.[1][5][10] On June 30, 2015, the company announced a $40 Million Series B lead by Promus Ventures with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and Jump Capital.[11]

The company’s first three ArduSat satellites were named after a portmanteau of Arduino, the technology on which they were based, and Satellite.[7][12] In August 2014, it was announced that Ardusat was spun out of Spire and would focus on educational technology.[2]

In September 2015, Spire became the first CubeSat operator based in the US to launch from India.[13] In January 2016, the company announced a Boulder, Colorado office and that it had hired the former program manager of the COSMIC weather satellite constellation.[14]

Satellites

File:Spire CubeSats Released from ISS.jpg
Two (of four) Spire satellites are deployed from the International Space Station on 2016-05-18.

Spire satellites are built to conform to the CubeSat standard. The company uses minimally adapted consumer electronics to reduce cost.[15] The satellites are placed in Low-Earth Orbit and are scheduled to be retired and replaced every two years.[16][17] The Lemur-1 satellite was launched as a prototype for a constellation of 50 or more satellites.[18]

The satellites are multi-sensor. Data types such as Automatic Identification System (AIS) service are used for tracking ships, and weather payloads measure temperature, pressure and precipitation. AIS data is meant for use in illegal fishing, trade monitoring, maritime domain awareness, insurance, asset tracking, search and rescue, and piracy.[6]

Satellite List

Satellite Name Configuration Launch Date Launch Vehicle Purpose
Ardusat-1 1U CubeSat 2013-08-03 H-2B-304 [19] Public experimentation
Ardusat-X 1U CubeSat 2013-08-03 H-2B-304 [19] Public experimentation
Ardusat-2 2U CubeSat 2014-01-09 H-2B-304 [20] Public experimentation
Lemur-1 3U CubeSat 2014-06-19 Dnepr [21] Prototype
Lemur-2-Peter 3U CubeSat 2015-09-28 PSLV-XL [22] Commercial
Lemur-2-Jeroen 3U CubeSat 2015-09-28 PSLV-XL [22] Commercial
Lemur-2-Joel 3U CubeSat 2015-09-28 PSLV-XL [22] Commercial
Lemur-2-Chris 3U CubeSat 2015-09-28 PSLV-XL [22] Commercial
Lemur-2-Theresacondor 3U CubeSat 2016-03-23 Atlas-5 [23] Commercial
Lemur-2-Nick-Allain 3U CubeSat 2016-03-23 Atlas-5 [23] Commercial
Lemur-2-Kane 3U CubeSat 2016-03-23 Atlas-5 [23] Commercial
Lemur-2-Jeff 3U CubeSat 2016-03-23 Atlas-5 [23] Commercial

References

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External links

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