EP71: Joel Spark, GM Space Services at Spire, unlocking the digital frontier and the quest to build a second earth

Space Café Podcast

English - January 03, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes - 43.4 MB
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Spire Global is a data and analytics company that uses nanosatellites to track global data sets, such as maritime, aviation, and weather patterns. It operates a fleet of over 110 CubeSats, the second largest commercial constellation by number of satellites, and the largest by number of sensors. The satellites are designed and built in-house, and the company has launched over 140 of them since its inception. Spire has offices in several locations around the world, including San Francisco, Boulder, Washington D.C., Glasgow, Luxembourg, Singapore, and Cambridge, Ontario. It was founded in 2012 as NanoSatisfi Inc. and rebranded as Spire in 2014. The company has raised multiple rounds of funding, including a $25 million Series A round in 2014 and a $40 million Series B round in 2015.

Host: Markus Mooslechner

Guest: Joel Spark

Publisher: Torsten Kriening

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