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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Ignacio Zuleta intends for OroraTech to deploy its payloads at the highest velocity possible as a fundamental change in company strategy.
OroraTech’s current offering provides resolution down to 200 meters.
OroraTech plans to ramp up partner satellite agreements to meet demand rather than wait for its own supply chain to catch up.
OroraTech flew its thermal sensing hardware as a hosted payload aboard Kepler’s optical communications constellation earlier in 2025.
OroraTech grew its constellation from two satellites to over ten in 2025, doubling the areas of Earth it can monitor.
Flying as a hosted payload allows OroraTech to deploy its constellation more quickly because payload integration timelines are much shorter than building an entire satellite.
OroraTech aims to grow its constellation to a few hundred satellites to provide worldwide coverage and 15-minute revisit rates with resolution as low as 50 meters.
Partner satellites can provide greater power and data downlink capabilities, and Kepler’s optical communications stack can reduce data latency for OroraTech customers.
Ignacio Zuleta was appointed OroraTech’s chief technology and product officer.
By hosting SAFIRE Gen4 on Kepler’s next-generation satellite network, OroraTech enables near-real-time delivery of wildfire intelligence from space to Earth.
In 2022, OroraTech launched the first three satellites of the OroraTech Constellation Phase-1 (OTC-P1), including the Forest-1 3U CubeSat demonstrator satellite.
OroraTech claims to provide the first thermal livestream of Earth using Kepler's satellite network.
OroraTech’s thermal insights will be provided to customers on the ground as persistent, real-time infrared data from orbit.
Four SAFIRE Gen4 sensor packages developed by OroraTech were launched aboard the SpaceX Twilight rideshare mission.
OroraTech announced that four of its SAFIRE Gen4 sensors were onboard the first tranche of 10 satellites for the Kepler Communications optical data relay constellation launched on January 11.
In March 2025, OroraTech deployed a constellation of 8 satellites known as OroraTech Constellation Phase-2 (OTC-P2) on an 8U Spire Global Lemur CubeSat satellite bus.
The SAFIRE family of thermal sensors is flight-proven on both OroraTech and partner satellites currently in orbit.
OroraTech’s proprietary SAFIRE Gen4 sensor is a flexible, space-qualified thermal imaging system designed for durability and compatibility.
OroraTech launched another 6U CubeSat named Forest-3 in 2025.
OroraTech was founded in 2018 and has launched 11 satellites to date.