Spire Global Awarded Contract Under European Space Agency’s NAVISP Element 2 Program
December 07 2021 - 6:46AM
Business Wire
Company to develop flexible geolocation signal
processing tools
Spire Global, Inc.(NYSE: SPIR) ("Spire" or the "Company"), a
leading global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space
services, has been awarded a contract under the European Space
Agency's (ESA) Navigation Innovation and Support Programme (NAVISP)
Element 2 Program funded by UK Space Agency. Spire will work with
NAVISP to build on the current capabilities of the Spire
constellation and develop tools needed for geolocation signal
processing, which will be applied toward geolocating Global
Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) interferences coming from
Earth’s surface. Spire’s low-earth orbit (LEO) nanosatellite
technology will be used to collect suspect interfering RF signals
from a range of geographic areas prone to disruptions. Advanced
processing algorithms will be developed to characterise the
collected signals in support of a range of potential use cases.
NAVISP Element 2 emphasizes maintaining and improving the
capability and competitiveness of the position, navigation, and
timing (PNT) industry and its technologies and services in the
global satellite navigation market. In recent years, PNT services
have become ubiquitous and are currently relied upon by numerous
applications, including key elements of critical national
infrastructure such as telecommunications, emergency services,
energy, finance, food, and transport. The GNSS signals utilized in
these applications are vulnerable to interference, which can
disrupt PNT services.
Drawing from Spire's expertise in space-based infrastructure and
GNSS, the project will develop a suite of geolocation signal
collection and processing techniques (including single and
multi-satellite) to detect and characterise signals collected from
a variety of expected interference scenarios.
“Satellite-derived position, navigation, and timing signals
underpin services such as banking and transportation, as well as
almost all the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure (including
energy, policing, and healthcare) and defense operations,” says the
United Kingdom’s 2021 National Space Strategy. “Space capabilities
are already central to many basic safety-critical civil functions,
and this dependency on space will only increase.”
“In order to maintain the continuity of applications reliant on
PNT services, we recognized a need for a more proactive monitoring
solution for sources of interference,” said Theresa Condor, Chief
Operating Officer at Spire Global. “Given the massive number of
potential interference sources and large areas to monitor, it’s
difficult to perform effective monitoring from the ground or
aircraft altitudes, and current technologies are not practical at
scale. Implementing a more advanced system will increase coverage
of these vulnerable areas, and encourage more targeted and
localized actions to ensure faster activation of backup
solutions.”
About Spire Global, Inc.
Spire (NYSE: SPIR) 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 NAVISP Element 2
NAVISP is an optional programme of the European Space Agency
initiated in 2017 to support the generation and introduction of
innovation in various PNT market segments. The main goal of NAVISP
is to generate innovative concepts, techniques and systems linked
to the highly competitive and evolving global market for PNT
technologies. Element 2 keeps demonstrating the pertinence of its
action with more than 120 activities incubated so far.
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