Umbra ranks 63 on the Space 100 with a score of 70; Spire Global ranks 84 with 66. Spire Global is ahead on deployment. Umbra is ahead on technology and positioning. Level on production, commercials, progress, firepower and leverage. Spire Global is based in Vienna, United States, Umbra in Santa Barbara, United States. Spire Global is named in 106 signals and Umbra in 23.
Spire sells satellite-driven weather intelligence through AI-WX, AI-S2S, APIs and Cirrus, serving energy, agriculture, logistics, insurance, finance and government customers.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
106 signals name Spire Global.
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Umbra builds and operates radar-imaging satellites and sells high-resolution commercial SAR imagery for Earth observation customers.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Umbra is a US SAR operator with 12+ satellites launched (Umbra-12 in January 2026) at 16cm resolution, the highest commercially available, built at low single-digit-millions cost (the cheapest per performance in the field), plus a satellite-sales line building SAR sats for customers. It holds an NRO triple-anchor: an operational Radar Commercial Augmentation contract (August 2026, one of only three survivors of the five-company CRC evaluation), SCE Stage III, and an RF-products award. Revenue is estimated at 10-100m from NRO and commercial streams.
23 signals name Umbra.
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Umbra ranks 63 on the Space 100 with a score of 70; Spire Global ranks 84 with 66. Spire Global is ahead on deployment. Umbra is ahead on technology and positioning. Level on production, commercials, progress, firepower and leverage. Spire Global is based in Vienna, United States, Umbra in Santa Barbara, United States. Spire Global is named in 106 signals and Umbra in 23.
Umbra ranks 63 on the Space 100 with a score of 70; Spire Global ranks 84 with 66. Spire Global is ahead on deployment. Umbra is ahead on technology and positioning. Level on production, commercials, progress, firepower and leverage. Spire Global is based in Vienna, United States, Umbra in Santa Barbara, United States. Spire Global is named in 106 signals and Umbra in 23. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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