Spire said it will provide its own proprietary Automatic Identification System (AIS) data to Kleos Space providers when ship AIS signals are undetected.

Spire, which operates a constellation of satellites that provide weather, tracking and other data, has raised a new round of more than $40 million to fund work on data products and expansion into the Asia-Pacific market.

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