National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) × Spire Global Subsidiary, Inc.
As part of its Radio Occultation Data Buy 2 (RODB-2), NOAA awarded a firm fixed-price contract to Spire Global to provide 3,000 daily profiles of satellite-based radio occultation data. [51, 52] The data will be ingested into numerical weather prediction models by NOAA, NASA, the USAF, and the U.S. Navy. [52] The data delivery period runs for 365 days starting September 18, 2025. [52]
The asset
A daily feed of 3,000 near-real-time Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Occultation (RO) data profiles for weather forecasting and space weather applications.
- 3k GNSS-RO profiles per day
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- Satellite weather data
- Modalities
- satellite_data, geospatial_data
- Jurisdiction
- US
What it means if you hold data
This deal, alongside the concurrent award to PlanetiQ, underscores the US government's strategy of using multiple commercial vendors to ensure a resilient supply of critical environmental data. [51, 52] It solidifies the role of commercial satellite constellations in the national operational weather infrastructure.