Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has been awarded $9.4 million by NOAA to provide radio occultation (RO) data for an 8-month period. The award is part of an Indefinite Delivery […]
Weather Forecasting
EUMETSAT’s multi-million euro contract to Spire for satellite weather data
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR), global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, has been awarded a multi-million euro contract by EUMETSAT, Europe’s meteorological satellite agency, to provide radio occultation […]
Spire Global’s space-based high-res weather forecasts solution for utilities and commodity traders
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR), a global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, launched its High-Resolution Weather Forecast model, a differentiated regional high-resolution weather forecasting service designed to […]
PlanetiQ GNOMES-4 satellite launched
PlanetiQ launched the company’s fourth generation Radio Occultation (RO) measurement satellite, GNOMES-4, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California — the satellite was successfully […]
EUMETSAT Polar System satellites are now involved in testing + integration with Airbus D&S
Metop Second Generation A1 and B1 (Metop-SGA1 and Metop-SGB1) are the first pair of a total of six satellites in the EUMETSAT Polar System – Second Generation (EPS-SG) system. These […]
NOAA uses AI and seeks public feedback to translate forecasts and warnings into Spanish and Chinese
NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) has provided manual translations of weather forecasts and warnings in Spanish for the past 30 years, but now the agency has a new tool to be […]
Space Systems Command’s statement before the scrub of National Reconnaissance Office’s SILENTBARKER/NROL-107
Previous to this Space Systems Command statement United Launch Alliance announced a scrub on the launch slated for the 29th due to possible weather conditions. Space Systems Command (SSC), in […]
Spire Global + Cloudeo join forces for global satellite-powered weather data
Cloudeo has partnered with Spire Global to bring weather data to more than 34,000 GIS and Earth Observation (EO) experts from around the world. Spire Global builds, owns and operates […]
NOAA satellites monitoring severe weather + smoke
As catastrophic flooding impacts the Northeast, skies across the region and particularly along the central and eastern U.S. have also been affected by heavy smoke from wildfires burning across Canada […]
Europe’s first lightning imager captures 1,000 pictures per second that help produce a meteorological breakthrough
The first satellite instrument continuously detecting lightning over Europe and Africaison is delivering a breakthrough for the detection and prediction of severe storms. Europe’s meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT, and the […]