About Care Weather
Care Weather’s name comes from its commitment to never put life-saving warnings behind a paywall. Our mission is to save lives and livelihoods with the most accurate and helpful weather forecasting system ever. That begins with satellites that monitor global weather in real time with high resolution and high accuracy. No other measurement platform has the potential to provide a global solution with such exponential impact.
Weather satellites have stagnated since the 90s, taking decades and billions of dollars to build. Care Weather was founded by Patrick Walton and Alex Laraway to mass-produce weather satellites, unlocking orders of magnitude more truth data for the next generation of weather forecasts.
Care Weather designs, builds, and operates satellites from its headquarters in Springville, Utah.
Our people
CEO, Co-founder
Patrick co-founded Care Weather and has led seven programs supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Air Force. His experience includes business and engineering roles at Evolution Space, L3Harris, and Brigham Young University engineering labs.
Profile (opens in a new tab)CTO, Co-founder
Alex co-founded Care Weather and develops satellite hardware and software. His work spans manufacturing, mechanical engineering, communications, radar, and embedded software, including systems flown in space.
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Dr. Long has more than 40 years of experience measuring Earth from space. He led NASA’s Radar Projects Office during the development of the NSCAT and QuikSCAT ocean-wind radar instruments, coauthored a textbook on radar remote sensing, and has published more than 400 papers.
Profile (opens in a new tab)Made in Springville, Utah
We build near the Wasatch mountains, with the desert, rivers, lakes, and high country close enough to be part of life outside the factory.
Our office brings engineering, manufacturing, and mission operations together.
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Our investors
Thank you to the investors who have helped make the work possible.
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