Spire Global has tapped Eric Mellinger to lead its global commercial organization Mellinger previously worked at MANTECH Mellinger spent 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps before retiring as a colonel Spire Global has appointed Eric “Mell” Mellinger, a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel, as chief commercial officer, effective Aug. 3. The c...
Theresa Condor, chief operating officer at Spire Global, will succeed Peter Platzer as CEO of the Vienna, Virginia-based data and analytics company. The leadership transition will take effect Jan. 1 and will see Platzer become executive chairman of the board, Spire said Monday. Condor, who has helped build up Spire as part of its founding...
Data, analytics and space services provider Spire Global has entered into an agreement to sell its maritime business to Kpler, a data and analytics company focused on global trade. The transaction, worth approximately $241 million, is expected to close by the 1st quarter of 2025, Spire said Wednesday. Transaction Details Of the total transaction val...
Leo Basola, former senior vice president of international finance at Equifax (NYSE: EFX), has been named chief financial officer of Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR). He succeeds Thomas Krywe, who left the CFO post after five years, and will lead Spire’s strategy to achieve its goal of having positive free cash flow by mid-2024, the space data...
Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) has deployed and established contact with two nanosatellites that employ optical inter-satellite links to establish secure communications with each other and reduce network latency. The 6U satellites launched into orbit aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter-8 rideshare mission in support of the Eu...
Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) and PlanetiQ will provide space-based radio occultation data products to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under a shared follow-on contract worth $59.3 million over five years. NOAA awarded the Radio Occultation Data Buy II vehicle as part of an agency initiative to evaluate the impact of commercial data ...
The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded six companies separate contracts under the Strategic Commercial Enhancements program to provide insight into radio frequency remote sensing capabilities. Aurora Insight, HawkEye 360, Kleos Space, PredaSAR, Spire Global and Umbra Lab will conduct studies to inform the acquisition and integration of comme...
Boyd Johnson, a corporate compliance and governance professional with more than 25 years of industry experience, has been appointed chief legal officer at space data provider Spire Global. He succeeds Ananda Martin, who has served as Spire’s general counsel since 2018, and will report directly to co-founder and CEO Peter Platzer, the company s...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started buying weather data from satellite companies Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) and GeoOptics and kicked off testing data from a third company in 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. GeoOptics and Spire were two of the three companies that secured contracts from NOAA in July to supply s...
Joan Amble, founder and president of a consulting firm, has been appointed to the board of directors at Vienna, Virginia-headquartered space data provider Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR). She holds extensive audit and governance experience and aims to help Spire’s leadership team implement best practices to navigate business growth, the company said Thu...
