Lemur-2 (Low Earth Multi-Use Receiver) satellites are 3-Unit CubeSats built and operated by the American company Spire Global. These small satellites are used to track maritime, aviation, and weather activity from space equipped with AIS, ADS-B and GNSS-RO sensors. Each Lemur-2 satellite measures 10x10x34,5 cm, weighs less than 6 kg and is powered by a deployable solar array. Most of the Lemur-2 satellites are deployed into low-Earth orbit in small batches from the International Space Station (ISS) or from commercial launch vehicles such as Falcon 9 or Electron rockets. Spire Global is a space-to-cloud data and analytics company that specializes in the tracking of global data sets powered by a large constellation of nanosatellites, such as the tracking of maritime, aviation and weather patterns. Lemur-2 data is highly valuable for public and private weather forecasters across the world and is also is valuable for use in illegal fishing, trade monitoring, maritime domain awareness, insurance, asset tracking and search and rescue.
Satellite info
| Nation: | USA |
| Company/operator: | Spire Global |
| Platform/configuration: | 3U CubeSat / 6U CubeSat |
| Mass: | 4 kg |
| Orbit: | 400 km - 650 km Low Earth Orbit (LEO) |
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| Purpose: | Traffic monitoring, meteorology |
| Launch vehicles: | PSLV-XL, Atlas 5, Antares 230, Soyuz-2-a Fregat, Vega, Falcon 9, Electron |
| Website: | https://spire.com |
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Lemur-2 satellites launch overview
| Flight no. | Date launch | Rocket | Launch base | Orbit | Satellites launched | Mission succes? |
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| 1 | 28/09/2015 | PSLV-XL | Satish Dhawan Space Centre (India) | 640 km | 4 | Success |
| 2 | 23/03/2016 | Atlas 5 | Cape Canaveral (USA) | 400 km | 8 | Success |
| 3 | 18/10/2016 | Antares 230 | Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (USA) | 500 km | 4 | Success |
| 4 | 09/12/2016 | H-2B | Tanegashima (Japan) | 400 km | 4 | Success |
| 5 | 15/02/2017 | PSLV-XL | Satish Dhawan Space Centre (India) | 500 km | 8 | Success |
| 6 | 18/04/2017 | Atlas 5 | Cape Canaveral (USA) | 500 km | 4 | Success |
| 7 | 23/06/2017 | PSLV-XL | Satish Dhawan Space Centre (India) | 500 km | 8 | Success |
| 8 | 17/07/2017 | Soyuz-2-1a Fregat | Baikonur (Russia) | 590 km | 8 | Success |
| 9 | 12/11/2017 | Antares 230 | Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (USA) | 450 km | 8 | Success |
| 10 | 28/11/2017 | Soyuz-2-1b Fregat | Baikonur (Russia) | Launch failure | 8 | Failure |
| 11 | 12/01/2018 | PSLV-XL | Satish Dhawan Space Centre (India) | 500 km | 4 | Success |
| 12 | 21/01/2018 | Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 (New Zealand) | 500 km | 2 | Success |
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| 13 | 01/02/2018 | Soyuz-2-1a Fregat | Baikonur (Russia) | 500 km | 4 | Success |
| 14 | 21/05/2018 | Antares 230 | Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (USA) | 500 km | 4 | Success |
| 15 | 11/11/2018 | Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 (New Zealand) | 510 km | 2 | Success |
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| 16 | 29/11/2018 | PSLV-XL | Satish Dhawan Space Centre (India) | 485 km | 4 | Success |
| 17 | 27/12/2018 | Soyuz-2-1a Fregat | Baikonur (Russia) | 580 km | 8 | Success |
| 18 | 01/04/2019 | PSLV-QL | Satish Dhawan Space Centre (India) | 500 km | 4 | Success |
| 19 | 05/07/2019 | Soyuz-2-1a Fregat | Baikonur (Russia) | 530 km | 8 | Success |
| 20 | 11/12/2019 | PSLV-QL | Satish Dhawan Space Centre (India) | 570 km | 4 | Success |
| 21 | 03/09/2020 | Vega | Kourou (French Guyana) | 530 km | 8 | Success |
| 22 | 28/09/2020 | Soyuz-2-1a Fregat | Baikonur (Russia) | 560 km | 4 | Success |
| 23 | 03/10/2020 | Antares 230 | Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (USA) | 500 km | 2 | Success |
| 24 | 07/11/2020 | PSLV-DL | Satish Dhawan Space Centre (India) | 570 km | 4 | Success |
| 25 | 24/01/2021 | Cape Canaveral (USA) | 525 km | 7 | Success |
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| 26 | 29/04/2021 | Vega | Kourou (French Guyana) | 610 km | 2 | Success |
| 27 | 30/06/2021 | Cape Canaveral (USA) | 525 km | 6 | Success |
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| 28 | 13/01/2022 | Cape Canaveral (USA) | 520 km | 2 | Success |
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| 29 | 25/05/2022 | Cape Canaveral (USA) | 520 km | 4 | Success |
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| 30 | 03/01/2023 | Cape Canaveral (USA) | 520 km | 6 | Success |
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| 31 | 15/04/2023 | Cape Canaveral (USA) | 520 km | 1 | Success |
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| 32 | 12/06/2023 | Vandenberg Space Force Base (USA) | 520 km | 2 | Success |
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| 33 | 18/07/2023 | Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 (New Zealand) | 520 km | 2 | Success |
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| 34 | 11/11/2023 | Vandenberg Space Force Base (USA) | 520 km | 2 | Success |
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| 35 | 04/03/2024 | Vandenberg Space Force Base (USA) | 520 km | 2 | Success |
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| 36 | 16/08/2024 | Vandenberg Space Force Base (USA) | 520 km | 6 | Success |
Images: Spire Global
