Spire’s Constellation Management Platform,
developed with support from ESA, offers an easy-to-use interface to
manage and optimize satellite operations for one satellite or an
entire fleet
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a
leading global provider of space-based data, analytics and space
services, today at Space Tech Expo Europe unveiled Constellation
Management Platform, a web-based app that simplifies satellite
constellation operations through its user-friendly interface. The
development of the platform is co-funded by the European Space
Agency (ESA) under ARTES Core Competitiveness (CC) Programme with a
€1.5 million award to Spire, along with support from the Luxembourg
Space Agency (LSA).
Spire’s Constellation Management Platform is the latest
innovation by Spire Space Services, the Company’s end-to-end
solution for customers to build, launch and operate their own
satellite constellation for a flat monthly fee. Spire provides
standardized Space as a Service missions that support a range of
use cases across Earth observation, connectivity, radio frequency
intelligence and space domain awareness — making it easier and
faster for customers to get their satellites in orbit and scale a
constellation.
Satellite constellation operations have traditionally been
complex and resource intensive, requiring a room full of people to
operate satellites at all times of the day. Spire is leveraging its
more than a decade of experience operating the world’s largest
multi-payload satellite constellation to automate and optimize
satellite operations, allowing any company to operate their
satellites with one person and a laptop.
The platform allows users to connect directly with their
satellites to task, schedule and monitor every aspect of their
payload, data, fleet health and mission planning through a
user-friendly interface. It simplifies access to Spire’s ground
operations software to operate a satellite or constellation with
multiple, global ground station networks for tracking, scheduling,
commanding, downlinking data and monitoring telemetry. It was built
using Amazon Web Services and will deliver satellite data directly
into a customer’s ecosystem. It is also accessible through a Spire
API.
“Satellites never sleep. You build and launch a satellite once,
but then you have to operate it and communicate with it thousands
of times over its lifetime,” said Frank Frulio, general manager of
Space Services, Spire. “Typically, you need an army of experts to
do that, but we’ve simplified space so that anyone can easily
manage satellites and gain insights from space to give their
business a competitive edge — such as helping insurance companies
build products that safeguard against climate change variables and
providing utilities companies with accurate, real-time data for
remote forestry management.”
Spire’s Constellation Management Platform is available to
customers that build, launch and operate satellites with Space
Services, as well as for those looking to simplify and optimize
operations of an existing constellation.
“The path leading up to launch, although exciting, is one step
of a larger journey,” said Dr. Gernot Groemer, Director at the
Austrian Space Forum. “Collaborating with Spire has transformed
ADLER-2 operations into a seamless experience. The user-friendly
API web application developed by Spire not only saves us time but
also enables us to redirect our focus from calculating schedule
windows to analysing the measurements gathered by our payloads. The
automation of satellite operations has made it a hands-off,
effortlessly managed process for us that has been a game changer
for our research initiatives.”
Dietmar Schmitt, acting Head of Systems, Strategic Programme
Lines and Technology Department for the ESA Connectivity and Secure
Communications Directorate, said, “The Constellation Management
Platform, which is developed by Spire under the ESA ARTES CC
programme, will offer a simplified approach to constellation
mission operations by providing customers with an automated
end-to-end satellite operations system. It will be managed through
a web application, allowing for a more efficient planning and use
of the resources and space assets.”
Learn more about Spire’s Constellation Management Platform at
spire.com/space-services/constellation-management-platform/.
About Spire Global, Inc.
Spire (NYSE: SPIR) is a global provider of space-based data,
analytics and space services, offering unique datasets and powerful
insights about Earth so that organizations can make decisions with
confidence in a rapidly changing world. Spire builds, owns, and
operates a fully deployed satellite constellation that observes the
Earth in real time using radio frequency technology. The data
acquired by Spire’s satellites provides global weather
intelligence, ship and plane movements, and spoofing and jamming
detection to better predict how their patterns impact economies,
global security, business operations and the environment. Spire
also offers Space as a Service solutions that empower customers to
leverage its established infrastructure to put their business in
space. Spire has nine offices across the U.S., Canada, UK,
Luxembourg, Germany and Singapore. To learn more, visit
spire.com.
About the European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) provides Europe’s gateway to
space.
ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with
the mission to shape the development of Europe’s space capability
and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the
citizens of Europe and the world.
ESA has 22 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czechia,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United
Kingdom. Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia are Associate
Members.
ESA has established formal cooperation with four Member States
of the EU. Canada takes part in some ESA programmes under a
Cooperation Agreement.
By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its
members, ESA can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the
scope of any single European country. It is working in particular
with the EU on implementing the Galileo and Copernicus programmes
as well as with Eumetsat for the development of meteorological
missions.
Learn more about ESA at www.esa.int.
About ESA’s ARTES Core Competitiveness Programme
ESA’s ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems)
programme is unique in Europe and aims to support the
competitiveness of European and Canadian industry on the world
market. Core Competitiveness is dedicated to the development,
qualification, and demonstration of products (“Competitiveness and
Growth”), or long-term technology development (“Advanced
Technology”). Products in this context can be equipment for the
platform or payload of a satellite, a user terminal, or a full
telecom system integrating a network with its space segment.
Find out more at:
https://connectivity.esa.int/core-competitiveness
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