{"title":"HawkEye 360 vs Spire Global: Earth observation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/hawkeye-360-vs-spire-global","comparison":"HawkEye 360 ranks 14 on the Space 100 with a score of 82; Spire Global ranks 84 with 66. HawkEye 360 is ahead on production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on deployment. HawkEye 360 is based in Herndon, United States, Spire Global in Vienna, United States. HawkEye 360: Public. HawkEye 360 is named in 23 signals and Spire Global in 106.","companies":[{"name":"HawkEye 360","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/hawkeye-360","city":"Herndon","country":"United States","stage":"Public","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"HawkEye 360 is a US RF-geolocation operator with a 30-satellite constellation (clusters of three since 2018; Block 4 angle-of-arrival payloads launching 2027), promoted from watchlist after it went public (ticker HAWK). FY25 revenue was $117.7M with $24.8M EBITDA (international outpacing US), and Lockheed Martin is an investor and integration partner, feeding RF intelligence into the AEGIS weapon system at Valiant Shield 2026; its December 2025 ISA acquisition generalizes emitter identification. The IPO proceeds, Q2 figures, and backlog are the open items.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":14,"score":82,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":8,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"HawkEye 360 operates a commercial RF geolocation satellite constellation and sells radio-frequency intelligence to customers including the National Reconnaissance Office.","segment":"Earth observation","layer":"Satellites & spacecraft"},"signals_total":23,"facts_total":16},{"name":"Spire Global","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/spire-global","city":"Vienna","country":"United States","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Spire Global is a US operator of a multi-payload nanosatellite constellation for RF sensing (weather, AIS, ADS-B) plus a space-services model building satellites for others, having reset its balance sheet by selling its maritime business to Kpler (~$241M, 2025) and now forecasting ~50% revenue growth in 2026. Its European pivot has a humanoid-list crossover: Schaeffler (which tops the Humanoids list) and Diehl are named partners in its German manufacturing expansion. Post-divestiture revenue is estimated at 10-100m.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":84,"score":66,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":9,"firepower":6,"commercial":6,"deployment":8,"production":6,"technology":6},"why":"Spire sells satellite-driven weather intelligence through AI-WX, AI-S2S, APIs and Cirrus, serving energy, agriculture, logistics, insurance, finance and government customers.","segment":"Earth observation","layer":"Satellites & spacecraft"},"signals_total":106,"facts_total":114}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}