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Unlock the future of aviation with space-based data & analytics
From takeoff to touchdown and every position in between
Real-time or historical aviation insights paired with unparalleled global coverage will empower you to make critical operational decisions with unwavering confidence. With our developer-friendly APIs or ready-to-use formats, you can harness the power of space-based aviation data tailored to your specific needs.
What is ADS-B data?
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Single source for global coverage
Our satellites capture ADS-B signals even in remote and challenging areas, providing you with unprecedented coverage also in regions where terrestrial tracking is unavailable, such as oceans, deserts, and mountains.
Flexible and seamless delivery options
We deliver the most diverse live or historical flight tracking dataset via developer-friendly APIs or ready-to-use formats, depending on your needs, as well as custom historical data delivery.
Most versatile dataset on the market
Gain access to real-time and historical aircraft positions, flight data, and flight status, as well as comprehensive Insights on Aircraft Type, Airline Data, Flight Information, and beyond.
From aviation big data to actionable aviation intelligence
Get the most from our flexible aviation solutions to suit your individual needs, with data processing from essential to advanced, in historic or live stream formats.
| Historical data | Recent data | Live data stream | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced processing | Flights History API A light-weight API that delivers historic flight data in one JSON object per historic flight request, each identified by a unique flight ID, via a REST endpoint. | Flight Report Extremely light, one-row-per-flight structure for air traffic occurring over the previous calendar day (UTC) in csv format on a daily, weekly or monthly recurring basis. | Flights Live API A REST API that delivers a rich mixture of real-time flight, aircraft, airline, airport, and schedule metadata in one JSON object per flight requested. Events Stream API A real-time continuous data stream of all significant events occurring over a flight’s lifecycle in one JSON object per flight requested. |
| Essential processing | Tracking History API A REST API that delivers a rich mixture of historic flight, aircraft, airline, airport, and schedule metadata in one JSON object per flight requested. | Recent History Stream API A continuous 4h-delay flight tracking data stream in JSON with an approximate 5s update rate per aircraft tracked. | Tracking Stream API A real-time continuous flight tracking data stream in JSON with an approximate 5s update rate per aircraft tracked. |
Flights Live API
A REST API that delivers a rich mixture of real-time flight, aircraft, airline, airport, and schedule metadata in one JSON object per flight requested.
Features:
Live data stream
Advanced processing
Learn more about Flights Live API
Flights History API
A light-weight API that delivers historic flight data in one JSON object per historic flight request, each identified by a unique flight ID, via a REST endpoint.
Features:
Historical data
Advanced processing
Learn more about Flights History API
Events Stream API
A real-time continuous data stream of all significant events occurring over a flight’s lifecycle in one JSON object per flight requested.
Features:
Live data
Advanced processing
Learn more about Events Stream API
Tracking Stream API
A real-time continuous flight tracking data stream in JSON with an approximate 5s update rate per aircraft tracked.
Features:
Live data
Essential processing
Learn more about Tracking Stream API
Recent History Stream API
A continuous 4h-delay flight tracking data stream in JSON with an approximate 5s update rate per aircraft tracked.
Features:
Recent data
Essential processing
Tracking History API
A REST API that delivers a rich mixture of historic flight, aircraft, airline, airport, and schedule metadata in one JSON object per flight requested.
Features:
Historical data
Essential processing
Learn more about Tracking History API
Flight Report
Extremely light, one-row-per-flight structure for air traffic occurring over the previous calendar day (UTC) in csv format on a daily, weekly or monthly recurring basis.
Features:
Recent data
Advanced processing
Learn more about Flight Report
Data use cases
Airline performance
Fleet insight
Emissions tracker
Airport traffic
Route planning
Airports
Our space-based aviation data helps digitalize airport services and operations to better anticipate passenger load, simplify airline invoicing, predict bottlenecks, plan ground handling services more efficiently, and improve your capacity assessment.
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Air cargo & logistics
Gain unparalleled end-to-end freight visibility and enhanced coverage, enabling you to optimize every aspect of your supply chain operations, seamlessly track your shipments, and monitor the carbon footprint of each delivery from start to delivery.
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Solution providers
By leveraging the power of accurate real-time and historic flight data and analytics, solution providers can differentiate themselves in the market, develop advanced and high-value solutions and tools for their clients, maximize cost savings for their clients, and build strong and lasting partnerships.
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Insurance, MRO & leasing
Enhance your resource allocation, scheduling, asset management and power predictive maintenance capabilities, asset exposure tools with critical airline/operator data on aircraft utilization and performance.
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Travel & tourism
Enabling companies and institutions to identify travel trends, flight traffic, tourism impact, flight cancellation and delay compensation, and deliver enhanced travel experience for passengers.
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Flights Live API & Events Stream API New!
Unleash the power of space-based flight insights you can instantly use
Built on next-gen flight processor engine processing millions of ADS-B positional updates into powerful and easy to use real time flight insights – arrival and departure times at airports, aircraft utilisation insights, airline on-time-performance (OTP) indicators, routes and network mapping, emissions insights and more.
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Empowering the aviation industry with reliable data to reduce environmental impact
In the pursuit of a greener future for aviation, accurate and reliable aviation data emerges as the driving force behind sustainable transformation. By leveraging space-based comprehensive data solutions, you can effectively address the challenges of carbon emissions and identify opportunities for lowering the carbon offset.
We are dedicated to facilitating contrail research and modeling to enhance the collective understanding of their climate effects and empowering our customers with effective contrail management strategies, enabling them to mitigate the impact of contrails and embrace sustainable practices in the aviation industry.
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Success stories
Impact of space-based data on applications, decision-making, and cost efficiencies
“Combining ch-aviation’s extensive fleet data with Spire Global’s satellite-based ADS-B data will create a wide range of immediately actionable insights, updated daily. It will allow MRO providers to track aircraft maintained by competitors, lessors to monitor their assets, airlines to benchmark their operational performance relative to competitors, and charter brokers to see which contracts they missed out on — providing a whole new dimension to the market intelligence ch-aviation makes available to the industry.”
Thomas Jaeger
Founder and CEO – ch-aviation
“Spire’s innovative space-based approach compared to ground-based methods really sets their solution apart. Especially the accuracy across oceans and the ability to map aircrafts on a registration base are super appealing features for us. Spire’s high quality coverage will also enable us to further develop our products by incorporating actual flown flight paths enabling our customer even more insights.”
Dr. Christian Soyk
CEO & Founder – skailark
“We are very pleased to be working closely with Spire, which generates high quality and granular flight movement data. Combined with TAC Index’s internal processes and data flows, we believe the resulting information from TAC Space will be of great assistance to all parties in the air cargo market, and a welcome addition to the TAC Index air cargo product suite.”
John Peyton Burnett
Managing Director – TAC Index
“We’re delighted to have signed the partnership with Spire. Having been aware of their data and capabilities for some time, we knew there was the potential to enhance our applications, core data and back-office processes. However, once we started working with the team at Spire, we quickly discovered a number of unique and exciting customer-facing use-cases that will allow us to provide powerful insights for our airport and airline clients.”
Peter Hind
CEO – RDC
“The high integrity and quality of Spire’s aviation data and their hassle-free integration via APIs with Laminaar’s ARMS® suite, enables consistent delivery of seamless information services to operators, keeping them in complete control of critical ops conditions, efficiently managing IROPs, pre-empting disruptions and complying with the highest safety standards.”
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