OroraTech, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, is a NewSpace company specializing in global wildfire detection and monitoring from space. It utilizes a constellation of nanosatellites equipped with thermal-infrared cameras to provide real-time data and alerts to first responders, governments, and industries. OroraTech partners with organizations like Spire Global, Isar Aerospace, and Rocket Lab to enhance its capabilities and expand its satellite network, aiming to improve wildfire management and climate-related applications.
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BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture Fund and Rabo Ventures backed OroraTech’s €37 million Series B extension.
Larimer County, Colorado became OroraTech’s first U.S. customer.
Thomas Gruebler leads OroraTech’s American operation from Denver.
OroraTech extended its Series B to €37 million in May 2025.
OroraTech opened its U.S. headquarters in Denver in April 2025.
GPTech is OroraTech’s local partner for the Río Negro wildfire monitoring initiative.
The Río Negro control centers will combine OroraTech’s proprietary satellite data with ground-based inputs, drone footage, and communications infrastructure powered by Starlink.
OroraTech’s Wildfire Solution provides thermal intelligence and near-real-time alerts to decision-makers, local firefighters (brigadistas), and emergency planners in Río Negro.
OroraTech, GPTech, and the provincial government of Río Negro launched satellite-powered wildfire detection and monitoring services across Río Negro province in Argentina.
Axel Roenneke is Chief Commercial Officer at OroraTech.
OroraTech delivers near-real-time thermal intelligence to governments and businesses worldwide.
OroraTech operates the world’s largest network of dedicated thermal sensors for infrared data accumulation and wildfire monitoring.
As chief technology and product officer, Dr. Ignacio Zuleta will steer OroraTech’s end-to-end technology deployment spanning thermal sensor and product deployment, edge data processing, and real-time connectivity.
Dr. Ignacio Zuleta has been appointed chief technology and product officer at OroraTech.
As chief technology and product officer, Dr. Ignacio Zuleta will lead OroraTech’s technology strategy and execution.
Under Dr. Ignacio Zuleta’s technical leadership, OroraTech will accelerate innovation across its thermal Earth observation capabilities and further establish itself as a global reference information layer for activity monitoring.
Satellites in the OroraTech and Satellogic constellations began flying with onboard AI accelerators capable of cloud detection, change detection, and basic classification by 2024.
OroraTech owns and operates its own satellites and has also flown its thermal sensing hardware as hosted payloads aboard partner satellites.
OroraTech expects that as many as two-thirds of its sensors might operate on partner satellites.
Achieving a 15-minute revisit rate would position OroraTech to participate in customers’ tip-and-cue workflows by detecting changes and enabling tasking of higher-resolution imagers.