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Data for Development and flight qualification of a commercial hyperspectral microwave sounder and satellite platform
Price
$28,000,000
Date
2026-08-26
Buyer
NOAA
Seller
Spire Global
Type
Data Procurement
Region
Global
Market Context
This contract advances Spire’s existing demonstrator toward operational atmospheric observation. It includes analysis of the observations’ effect on numerical weather prediction and resilience to radio-frequency interference.
The award shows a government customer financing the collection capability before purchasing an established operational dataset. That reduces the vendor’s cost of creating a future proprietary data stream.
Term
annual
(2-year)
Confidence:
Moderate
Citation:
DatFlash (2026).
"Data for Development and flight qualification of a commercial hyperspectral microwave sounder and satellite platform"
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