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My company, Spire, is doing fundamentally the same type of tracking as is described here, except for ships using AIS. By building a constellation of satellites
by mirashii 10y ago
My company, Spire, is doing fundamentally the same type of tracking as is described here, except for ships using AIS. By building a constellation of satellites with different orbits, and using a network of groundstations, you can achieve near-real time data. These would be no exception, it's just a matter of scaling up from one to n satellites and having the coverage of a groundstation network to support them.
- lorenzhs 10y agoOh I read about your company in the Economist recently, I thought that was really cool! Here's the article, for anyone interested: http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-25-08/space-2016 http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-25-08/spa... (the bit on Spire is in section 3). That you're also doing atmospheric measurements for weather forecasting seems pretty neat.