A year after signing with NanoRacks, on November 19, 2013, both ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X (1U CubeSats) were successfully released from the Kibo Experiment Module of the International Space Station and quickly started transmitting data to Spire servers. It raised investments totaling $1.5M in a seed round by Shasta Ventures, Lemnos Labs, E-merge, Grishin Robotics, and Beamonte Investments in February 2013. In order to raise the capital required for the manufacturing of those satellites, the company incubated with Lemnos Labs. Commercial Satellite Deployment from the International Space Station”. In November the company signed an agreement with NanoRacks for the deployment of two satellites in what was to become “the first U.S. This effort was partly financed through crowdfunding, with a KickStarter that raised Spire $106,330. Tests for early prototypes were conducted over the summer and the fall through a high-altitude balloon. NanoSatisfi was founded in June 2012 in San Francisco by International Space University graduates Peter Platzer, Jeroen Cappaert and Joel Spark as part of ArduSat, a project aiming to “democratize access to space”. Spire was originally known as NanoSatisfi Inc. The company has offices in San Francisco, Boulder, Washington, D.C., Glasgow, Luxembourg, Singapore, and Cambridge (Ontario). It has launched more than 140 satellites to orbit since its creation. The satellites are integrally designed and built in-house. The company currently operates a fleet of more than 110 CubeSats, the second largest commercial constellation by number of satellites, and the largest by number of sensors. is a space-to-cloud data and analytics company that specializes in the tracking of global data sets powered by a large constellation of nanosatellites, such as the tracking of maritime, aviation and weather patterns.
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