Spire's Technology Difference Part 2 - Spire's Satellites Are Software Defined
Client: Spire Global
Credit
Not published
Runtime
0:49
About the film
A concise Spire technology explainer about software-defined satellites. The speaker compares post-launch software updates in orbit to software updates in modern cars, explaining how a new upload can change a satellite’s capabilities and the kinds and quality of data it collects.
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Transcript Auto-generated from Vimeo
We can change what the devices do in orbit after they have been launched simply by uploading a piece of software. It is very similar to how we can increase the capabilities of a Tesla nowadays and make it go further or faster, something that was completely impossible to think of 20 years ago with a traditional car.
The same thing Spire is doing in space allows our satellites to collect different data, different types of data, more data, cleaner data, simply by a software upgrade.
