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Antoine de Chassy VP, Business Development Spire Global Inc. A Satellite-powered Big Data Company ICAO / UNOOSA Symposium 15–17 March 2016, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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AntoinedeChassyVP,BusinessDevelopment

Spire Global Inc. A Satellite-powered Big Data Company

ICAO/UNOOSASymposium15–17March2016,AbuDhabi,UnitedArabEmirates

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SPIRE AT A GLANCE

•  A satellite powered data company •  Founded in 2012 •  ~100 people in San Francisco, Washington DC, Boulder,

Glasgow (UK) and Singapore •  4 satellites in orbit (8 launched in total)

•  Target of 20+ satellites in orbit by Q2 2016

•  20 global ground stations •  Launching new satellites every single month •  100 satellites launches; 50 ground stations by end of 2017

in near-real time

collecting global radio frequency data

A flexible, upgradeable nanosatellite constellation

Confidential

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Spire Nanosatellite – Glasgow, UK office

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Spire Nanosatellite Qualification Model (QM) Assembly Confidential

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PSLV Launch on September 28th, 2015 Confidential

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SPIRE CAPABILITIES OVERVIEW

Software-Defined Radio Technology on a Nanosatellite

Platform

A Global Ground Station Network

Ship tracking

Weather data

Airplane Tracking

Data for Critical Applications

Machine-to-Machine Communications ↔

Current Focus

Confidential

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Market Opportunity: AIS ship tracking •  Up to $20bn losses in illegal fishing each year •  Ship traffic monitoring and security

Confidential

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Sample data: First 1 million AIS messages Confidential

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Weather Data from GPS Radio Occultation

EOY2015 EOY2016 EOY2018

SatellitesRevisitTime(minutes)

20

20

5010

125

5

GroundSta?ons 20

30

30

20

50

10Latency(minutes)

In the Troposphere: Temperature, Pressure and Humidity profiles

In the Ionosphere: Total Electron Content (TEC) profiles

L1&L2Frequencies

Confidential

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Market Opportunity: GPS Radio Occultation weather data

RO processing: Vertical profiles of atmospheric P, T, and H

Ø  Proven technology; used in all global Numerical Weather Prediction Models

Ø  Only 10,000 profiles/day available today

Ø  Only 2-3% of the assimilations in global NWPs, yet the 4th most effective type of data in reducing forecast error

•  Over $1.9 Trillion losses due to weather disasters 1995-2015

Spire will collect 100,000 Pressure, Temp, Humidity profiles per day

Ø  Global Coverage on a continuous basis

Ø  Improvements up to 130,000+ profiles

Ø  Goal= ubiquitous, holistic and accurate forecasts

Confidential

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SPIRE Global - SPACE 3.0 Moore’s law in Space: closing the business case

High Revisit & Access Time

Sensor Fusion Persistent and Resilient Service

Fast Technology Upgrade Time

On-board data analysis

Plentiful Launches

Confidential

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Thank You [email protected]