Spire Global Announces New Weather Customer, Southern Launch
October 18 2021 - 6:46AM
Business Wire
Spire to Provide Hyper-Local Weather
Forecasting Solution for Southern Launch’s Rocket Launch
Sites
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a
leading global provider of space-based data, analytics and space
services, has announced a new weather customer, Southern Launch, a
South Australian rocket launch service provider. Southern Launch
will have access to the Spire Weather Point Optimized Forecast, a
solution tailored for hyper-local, specific points of interest, for
their rocket sites.
The Spire Weather Point Optimized Forecast offers accounts for
local sensors and weather patterns in an exact location and creates
a customized, accurate forecast for that location.
“Rocket launches are extensively pre-planned for a specific
outcome, where the launch window is calculated based on the
location of the destination on its orbit. Weather events have a
direct impact on the actual mission itself, therefore are monitored
frequently within the site region. We expect that having access to
the Spire Point Optimized Weather forecasts will increase our
chances of performing a safe launch, leading to a successful
mission, even in the most remote locations,” said Lloyd Damp, CEO
for Southern Launch.
“Weather conditions can dramatically impact the safety and
timeliness of airborne travel and rocket launches, leading to
expensive cancellations and delays,” said Durjoy Mazumdar, Global
Weather Solutions Sales for Spire. “This is why it’s important for
rocket launch organizations like Southern Launch to closely monitor
local weather patterns. They need access to reliable weather
forecasts tailored to their precise location in order to support
safety and operational decisions. As global weather patterns become
increasingly unpredictable, weather-reliant companies need access
to intensive data to continue operating at a competitive level and
this is where Spire’s data steps in to fill the gap.”
The Spire Weather Point Optimized Forecast is now available for
any weather-dependent or space-related industry working within
localized as well as remote areas, including but not limited to
launch sites, airports, seaports, wind farms, and solar farms.
About Spire Global, Inc.
Spire is a leading global provider of space-based data,
analytics, and space services, offering access to unique datasets
and powerful insights about Earth from the ultimate vantage point
so that organizations can make decisions with confidence, accuracy,
and speed. Spire uses one of the world’s largest multi-purpose
satellite constellations to source hard to acquire, valuable data
and enriches it with predictive solutions. Spire then provides this
data as a subscription to organizations around the world so they
can improve business operations, decrease their environmental
footprint, deploy resources for growth and competitive advantage,
and mitigate risk. Spire gives commercial and government
organizations the competitive advantage they seek to innovate and
solve some of the world’s toughest problems with insights from
space. Spire has offices in San Francisco, Boulder, Washington DC,
Glasgow, Luxembourg, and Singapore. To learn more, visit
http://www.spire.com.
About Southern Launch
Southern Launch is an innovative space company providing launch
services, launch sites and bespoke rocket subsystems and designs to
customers. The company is developing the Whalers Way Orbital Launch
Complex located at the tip of the Eyre Peninsula to support orbital
launches into the highly sought after polar and sun synchronous
orbits. In addition to the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex,
Southern Launch is developing the suborbital Koonibba Test Range,
the southern hemisphere’s largest overland suborbital rocket
testing facility. The Range extends out 145 kilometres and covers
over 10,000km2, making it the perfect location to launch and
recover rocket and satellite technologies in the uninhabited
national parks to the north. The Range provides a critical
steppingstone for companies to validate their technology’s
performance before launching their rockets and satellites into
orbit.
Southern Launch is committed to providing Australia with a
world-class orbital launch complex, whilst simultaneously
contributing to material habitat improvement, consequent
biodiversity improvement and the long-term survival of local fauna
and flora species.
The Australian company is privately owned and headquartered in
Adelaide, South Australia.
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For Spire Global, Inc.: Janine Kromhout
janine.kromhout@spire.com (650) 269-1417
For Southern Launch: Shivawn Young
shivawn.young@southernlaunch.space +61 432 673 21
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