Miscellaneous
Peter Platzer is the Founder and CEO of Spire. Since 2012, Spire has built a constellation of almost 60 nano-satellites that collect observations under various headings and, in Platzer’s words, read the weather by looking at the refraction of GPS signals. A trained physicist, who studied at CERN and the Max Planck Institute, Platzer hails from Austria and used to work on Wall street, but left to pursue his scientific and commercial dream – pioneering small-scale satellites. You’ve heard of big data, Platzer is a pioneer of celestial even extra-celestial data – a frontier issue of vast commercial, strategic, moral and perhaps philosophical importance.