Spire Satellite Glasgow

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Spire satellite glasgow. Peter said spire has been growing almost 100 year over year. The city was chosen to leverage the local know how of what is widely considered the. Made by spire global uk in glasgow the supercomputer nanosatellites are only as big as a shoebox and will monitor shipping movements from low earth orbit. That means spire can deploy custom sensors to orbit faster than anyone else in the industry.
The data company spire global has announced the launch of its 100th glasgow built satellite. Glasgow has reinvented itself for the space age and now makes more satellites than any other city outside the united states since the first glasgow built satellite was launched back in 2014. Spire collects data where no one else can. The new space allows spire to design build test and integrate satellites entirely within one building and is the most comprehensive facility of its kind in the world.
Spire upgrades the satellite hardware with each iteration and performs continuous software updates with a major hardware upgrade every 2 3 years. They will join more than 100 other space objects providing support to maritime trade and were built with the help of more than 6 million in funding from the uk space agency. Right now the signs are very positive and we continue to hire particularly for engineers here in our glasgow office where current weather satellites do a great job providing us with information spire s new nanosatellites could gather up to 100 times more information. The low earth multi use receiver lemur satellites are designed to gather data on shipping weather.
Spire s satellite and data handling know how is designed to provide worldwide and round the clock information for its clients in global trade shipping and air traffic control as well as meteorology. Join danny joel and robert for a look inside spire s satellite engineering facility in glasgow uk. Facing increasing pressure to mass produce satellites and constrained by the limited space in its san francisco office spire opened an office in glasgow in february 2015 initially leveraging clyde space s facilities before opening its own full fledged cleanroom for satellite manufacturing in december 2015.