Spire Global awarded $9.4M contract by NOAA

Spire Global has been awarded $9.4M by the National Oceanographic and Oceanic Administration to provide radio occultation data for an 8-month period. The award is part of an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Program’s Radio Occultation Data Buy II. The near-real-time RO data provided by Spire will be used for NOAA’s operational weather forecasts, space weather models and climate research, among other applications. The company’s RO data consists of vertical profiles of atmospheric measurements, including pressure, humidity and temperature across all points of the globe.