
TechnologyMarch 9, 2016
A Quiet Revolution in Weather Forecasting
Small, relatively cheap and quickly upgradable microsatellites could soon make weather prediction far more reliable
Dave Ector spent the last several decades working on government satellites for the US Air Force and the NOAA, and was the lead program manager for COSMIC-1, a joint satellite project between Taiwan and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. He recently joined Spire Global as Product Manager for Spire Stratos, the company's weather data product.

A Quiet Revolution in Weather Forecasting
Small, relatively cheap and quickly upgradable microsatellites could soon make weather prediction far more reliable