Insider Brief:
- Spire Global, Inc. has secured a $9.4 million contract from the National Oceanographic and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) to enhance the precision of global weather forecasts with radio occultation (RO) data.
- Spire’s satellite constellation will deliver near-real-time radio occultation (RO) data and will play a crucial role in NOAA’s operational weather forecasts, space weather models, and climate research.
- The longstanding partnership and new contract aims to mitigate the risk and damage that can occur from extreme weather events by enhancing NOAA’s ability to make data informed weather predictions.
Spire Global, Inc., a global company, has secured a $9.4 million contract from the National Oceanographic and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) to enhance the precision of global weather forecasts with radio occultation (RO) data. The award is part of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Program’s Radio Occultation Data Buy II initiative and will span 8-months.
Spire’s satellite constellation will deliver near-real-time radio occultation (RO) data, comprising vertical profiles of atmospheric measurements such as pressure, humidity, and temperature across the entire globe, as announced by Spire Global. This data will play a crucial role in NOAA’s operational weather forecasts, space weather models, and climate research.
Chuck Cash, Vice President of Federal Sales at Spire, highlighted the urgency of accurate weather predictions, stating, “The increasing pace of extreme weather events is causing significant harm – impacting individuals, communities, businesses, and the economy at large. Through our long-standing relationship with NOAA, we are using space-based radio occultation measurements to address the critical need for accurate weather forecasts globally and help the world better prepare for and mitigate the impacts of extreme weather.”
Spire has been a trusted partner of NOAA since 2016 and was recently awarded a $2.8 million NOAA contract to provide ocean surface wind speed data.
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