Seattle-based Spaceflight Networks is partnering with smallsat developer Spire Global on a network of ground stations that will provide a low-latency communications system for such satellites. Spaceflight Networks, a subsidiary of Spaceflight Industries, said it will market and offer communications services using a network of ground stations that Spire is developing for its own constellation of GPS radio occultation satellites. Spaceflight will add those ground stations to its existing network of stations in Seattle, Alaska and New Zealand. The companies argued that as a growing number of companies announce plans for constellations of smallsats for Earth observation and other applications, they will need a distributed network of ground stations to rapidly distribute the data those satellites collect.
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