Spire Global Awarded $4 Million NOAA Contract to Deliver Hyperspectral Microwave Sensing Payload
September 26 2022 - 6:45AM
Business Wire
First Spire payload funded by NOAA will
demonstrate how hyperspectral microwave sensing technology can
improve the value and accuracy of Numerical Weather Predictions
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or the “Company”), a
leading global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space
services today announced that it has been awarded a Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) issued by the National Environmental Satellite,
Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) of the National
Oceanographic and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) to leverage the
technology of hyperspectral microwave sensing (HyMS). The two-year
program, focused on enhancing the value and accuracy of NOAA's
Numerical Weather Predictions (NWP), will fund Spire’s development
of a HyMS in-orbit demonstration sensor on a 16U satellite.
The original objective of NOAA’s BAA was to develop a HyMS
prototype in an airborne or balloon-based platform. Because of
Spire’s ability to provide high-quality commercial data for NOAA’s
weather forecast models and the company's existing work with RAL
Space and the U.K. Government to develop Hyperspectral Microwave
Sensors, NOAA will be able to harness Spire’s expertise and
innovative solutions from the ultimate vantage point, space. The
HyMS instrument is a new, advanced millimeter wave technology that
delivers microwave sounding information to measure atmospheric
moisture.
“In this era of extreme weather, the need to leverage data from
space to deliver more accurate weather forecasts has never been
more critical. NOAA’s continued priority to collaborate with earth
observation companies allows us to better predict, adapt to and
mitigate the impacts of climate change,” said Kamal Arafeh, Senior
Vice President of Global Sales, Spire. “We are thrilled to expand
our work with NOAA to develop a payload that will collect
additional near real-time weather observations and improve
measurements within and beneath clouds.”
Spire has been awarded a total of four NOAA contracts in FY22,
valued at $23.6 Million. While previous NOAA contracts have focused
on the purchase of radio occultation profiles, the HyMS contract is
the first award to utilize Spire’s pioneering Space Services (S3)
Model.
With a fully deployed constellation of more than 100 satellites,
Spire is the largest producer of radio occultation data and offers
a vast portfolio of current weather, historical weather data, and
weather forecasts solutions.
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 multi-purpose 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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