Spire Global Awarded $6 Million NASA Contract Extension for Earth Observation Data
June 23 2022 - 6:45AM
Business Wire
Spire has provided reflectometry, radio
occultation and other Earth observation data to NASA’s Commercial
Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program since 2018
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a
leading global provider of space-based data, analytics and space
services, today announced it was awarded a $6 million, 12-month
contract extension from NASA to continue its participation in the
agency’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program.
Spire will continue to deliver a comprehensive catalog of Earth
observation data, associated metadata, and ancillary information
from its constellation of 100+ multipurpose satellites. The data
provided will include:
- Surface data, Spire’s GNSS Grazing Angle Reflectometry
data (GNSS-R), to measure sea ice extent, classification and
altimetry, soil moisture, and ocean surface wind speed;
- Atmospheric data, Spire’s GNSS radio occultation
(GNSS-RO) soundings, for weather forecast models to improve global
weather forecasting accuracy;
- Space weather offering measurements of electron density
and scintillation that allow researchers to monitor the ionosphere
as well as prepare for and react to weather events in space;
and
- Domain awareness including satellite state vector,
altitude and precise orbit determination (POD) data to correct
errors in orbital drag models.
Spire’s data will be available for scientific purposes to all
federal agencies, NASA-funded researchers, and U.S.
government-funded researchers.
“The CSDA Program offers Earth observation data that is critical
to the efforts of U.S. government agencies and researchers working
to solve some of the biggest challenges we face, such as climate
change,” said Chuck Cash, Vice President of Federal Sales, Spire.
“The program is a great example of how partnership between the
private and public sector can accelerate our path to building a
better, more sustainable future.”
NASA launched the CSDA Program in 2017 for the purpose of
acquiring commercial datasets that support NASA’s Earth science
research and application goals. Commercial datasets provide a
cost-effective means to augment the suite of Earth observations
acquired by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, and international
partners and agencies.
“NASA is continuing our relationship with Spire Global via the
CSDA program for another year. These data continue to be leveraged
by NASA and its funded researchers, as well as other partners
throughout the U.S. government,” said Will McCarty, the CSDA
Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters. “We exploit these
observations to better understand the physical processes associated
with our Earth’s atmosphere and surface, as well as to observe and
understand the solar-driven space weather at the boundary between
the Earth’s atmosphere and space.”
Spire will provide rolling access to 12 months of radio
occultation data with a 30-day latency. This data will be archived
and maintained by NASA under the CSDA Program’s Smallsat Data
Explorer (SDX) database. Federal agencies and U.S.
government-funded researchers can request access to the data via
the CSDA Program’s commercial datasets webpage.
About Spire Global, Inc.
Spire (NYSE: SPIR) is a leading global provider of space-based
data, analytics and space services, offering access to unique
datasets and powerful insights about Earth from the ultimate
vantage point so that organizations can make decisions with
confidence, accuracy, and speed. Spire uses one of the world’s
largest multipurpose satellite constellations to source hard to
acquire, valuable data and enriches it with predictive solutions.
Spire then provides this data as a subscription to organizations
around the world so they can improve business operations, decrease
their environmental footprint, deploy resources for growth and
competitive advantage, and mitigate risk. Spire gives commercial
and government organizations the competitive advantage they seek to
innovate and solve some of the world’s toughest problems with
insights from space. Spire has offices in San Francisco, Boulder,
Washington DC, Ontario, Glasgow, Oxfordshire, Luxembourg, and
Singapore. To learn more, visit www.spire.com.
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