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Employee Spotlight: Pablo Sierra Heras, Senior Systems Engineer

A guide to maritime weather data for shipping

Spire provides global businesses with maritime weather data APIs to guide their ships, mitigate risks, enhance efficiencies, and streamline decisions.

The value of a hyper-local weather forecast in optimizing global supply chains

What are the global risks facing the world in 2023 and how can a location-specific local weather forecast help?

The Analytical Moose: Harnessing weather data to enhance wildfire awareness

“We live in a period where wildfires go from 10,000 acres to 1 million acres without warning. The speed at which these fires are spreading nowadays just makes it all the more difficult to evacuate people and combat it. I have lived through these fires and that’s why it’s important to me that I am able to build something that can notify residents in time.”

Employee Spotlight: Mira Ihasz, Senior Recruiter

Global trends that will impact supply chains in 2023

If 2020 is the year that broke the global supply chain, 2022 wasn’t the year where fixes were made. What emerging supply chain trends await 2023? Will there be greater resilience and predictability?

A lookback at the extreme weather events of 2022

A record-breaking year with climate change wreaking havoc across the globe with an increasing number of heatwaves, droughts, storms and other harsh weather events.

Driving next-generation AI-powered voyage optimization with weather data

It’s a regular gray smoggy day in 2050 in Los Angeles as the city wakes up and sets out to work with its residents wearing air filtration masks.

Employee Spotlight: Colleen McNamara, Maritime Customer Support Engineer

Leveraging global space-powered weather data to scale voluntary carbon markets

As climate change causes an increase in the intensity and frequency of storms, wildfires, droughts and other extreme weather events, the permanence of nature-based mitigation projects is increasingly threatened.

Space-as-a-Service (SPaaS) - the next generation of space-based business

For decades, space was out of reach to almost everyone except governments and large companies. Traditionally, any space project would require an upfront CapEx investment of hundreds of millions of dollars and average lead times of seven to ten years before getting into space.

COP 27: Turning the tide on climate change drives business value

Here’s a question: is what’s good for the planet also good business?

Employee Spotlight: Peter Johnston, Spacecraft Electronics Design Engineer