Spire is all about helping our customers know what is next, so they can make better decisions. Peter Platzer, chief executive and co-founder of Spire Global. These services have been developed under an ESA Pioneer programme, which is a partnership project co-funded by the UK Space Agency. Spire Global UK is a satellite-powered data company that provides predictive analysis or global shipping, aviation and weather forecasting. Our membership of ESA is benefiting companies across the UK, and we are committed to supporting the space economy in every region. These four Spire satellites are aimed at making trade hyper-accurate, with technology that makes business more cost effective and efficient. Nanosatellites weigh less than a piece of cabin luggage, but are enormously powerful in what they can do. Graham Turnock, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, said: Despite their size, they can do almost everything a conventional satellite does. Like mobile phones, satellites are also getting smaller and smarter and nanosatellites are roughly the size of a shoe box.
Spire staff design and build all the sub-systems, and integrate and test the whole spacecraft in the company’s Glasgow headquarters. The Spire nanosatellites have onboard intelligent machine-learning algorithms that can predict the locations of boats, track their whereabouts and their estimated arrival times at ports, allowing port businesses and authorities to manage busy docks safely. The other two nanosatellites will be aboard an Indian PSLV launcher, due for launch on 1 November. Two of four nanosatellites, made by Spire Global UK and backed by over £6m of Government investment, will take off on the Russian Soyuz launcher on 24 September. Government-backed ‘nanosatellites’ - built in Glasgow - will launch later this month, joining a fleet of more than 100 objects in low Earth orbit that predict global trade movements.
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