4U Satellite Specifications
Payload Volume97mm x 97mm x 213mm
PropulsionOptional
Satellite Design Life3-5 Years
Pointing Accuracy0.2°
Data Download (per sat per day)4GB
8U Satellite Specifications
Payload Volume220mm x 200mm x 97mm
PropulsionOptional
Satellite Design Life3-5 Years
Pointing Accuracy0.2°
Data Download (per sat per day)Up to 10GB
16U Satellite Specifications
Payload Volume220mm x 220mm x 335mm
PropulsionOptional
Satellite Design Life3-5 Years
Pointing Accuracy0.5°
Data Download (per sat per day)Up to 320GB
Federal solutions
Mission-critical satellite data and space services to protect and empower.
Our government-tailored portfolio of global maritime, aviation, and weather solutions is built for peak situational awareness and environmental monitoring.
Two distinct paths to greater Earth intelligence
Global monitoring, near real-time data streams, and custom historical datasets collected by a constellation of over 100+ low-orbit cube satellites equipped with multi-use radio frequency sensors.
Learn about our deal with NASA to provide tens of thousands of radio occultation data profiles per day.
Hosted payloads and custom-manufactured nanosatellites, transported on our reliable LEMUR 3U or 6U cubesat bus to low earth orbit.
Learn how the Australia Office of National Intelligence went from hosted payload order to orbit in less than 6 months.
Data solutions
Global, multi-domain situational awareness
Global AIS data for maritime intelligence
We deliver over 80 million AIS messages daily through our AIS message and vessels data feeds, providing groundbreaking accuracy and coverage even in high-traffic and remote zones.
ADS-B data for air tracking and monitoring
Access a streaming global ADS-B service and historical database to support application development, analysis, and strategic decision-making.
Earth intelligence & atmospherics
Our constellation leverages GNSS signals to collect atmospheric data used to improve weather forecasts, measure sea ice and soil moisture, and monitor various Earth properties.
Highly accurate weather forecasting
Spire offers a proprietary weather forecast model powered by our radio occultation data and custom predictive models, producing highly accurate, global high-resolution forecasts with over 100 discrete variables.
Space Services
Fast, reliable, and secure access to orbit
Spire offers hosted payload services for software defined radios (SDRs), custom antennae, and customer payloads. Spire Space Services is designed to accommodate new customer payloads quickly, enabling rapid rollout of new capabilities.
Spire’s reliable launch schedule and ability to design, assemble, and test our LEMUR satellites in-house allows for new bespoke sensors to go from design to launch in as little as six months.
The Spire LEMUR is fully qualified with 300 years of collective space flight heritage. Our platform is unique due to Spire’s repeatable processes that leverage evolving technologies to rapidly deploy the best components and software into space.
Meet the Lemur family
100+ satellites carrying 600+ years of space heritage
Spire trusts its internally-developed LEMUR bus for all its own data products. By building on top of this proven platform, you leverage the 600+ flight-years of heritage and 30+ design iterations of ongoing improvements when launching your business.
Case study
Spire Partners with Pole Star to Illuminate Dark Waters and Improve Search and Rescue Operations
Case study
Supporting Intelligence Communities: Australia ONI and Spire Partner to Develop Experimental AI-Powered CubeSat
About the Federal Team
The Spire Federal services team has decades of experience providing IT, data analytics, and space solutions to NASA, NOAA, USAF, Army, Navy, and the intelligence community. Our Federal sales professionals previously held government roles with the armed forces, Office of Space Commerce, and White House OSTP. We stand at the ready with solutions for your greatest challenges.
Resources
Latest federal resources and insights
Building mission success with miniaturized satellite technology
The successes of space-based observation and data collection have never been so significant. And we’re doing it with smaller technology than ever before – a 6kg satellite.
Read moreThe importance of global weather forecasts for U.S. Military and Civil Agency missions
Weather models help the U.S. military execute critical missions, federal engineering organizations create more resilient infrastructure, and scientists better understand climate change. By providing the data accuracy needed to safeguard military personnel and assets, global weather forecasting plays a pivotal role in today’s world.
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