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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OroraTech offers a Wildfire Solution powered by high-resolution thermal data from its proprietary space-based sensor system.
OroraTech provides high-resolution thermal data to customers on six continents, including forestry companies, utility companies, governmental organizations, and geospatial experts.
OroraTech has expanded beyond its headquarters in Germany with experts now based in Brazil, Canada, and Australia.
OroraTech expanded its proprietary spaceborne thermal sensor network with the launch of FOREST-2.
OroraTech is building FOREST-2, a sensor with higher resolution, upgraded processing, and faster detection speeds.
OroraTech received €15 million of Series A funding last year.
OroraTech obtained thermal imagery of fires in Alberta, Canada, in June 2023.
OroraTech demonstrated its first uncooled thermal infrared sensor on a Spire Global cubesat in 2022.
Spire Global is building and will operate the first eight OroraTech satellites under an agreement announced 2023-06-28, with a slated launch into a late-afternoon sun-synchronous orbit in 2024.
OroraTech is a Munich-based startup whose founders raised $22,400,000 to develop cubesat-scale thermal infrared sensors.
Spire Global signed an agreement with OroraTech to build, launch, and operate an eight-satellite constellation dedicated to global temperature monitoring.
OroraTech operated a precursor sensor in orbit for 15 months on a satellite designed, built, and operated by Spire Global.
Spire is partnering with OroraTech on a Canadian Space Agency contract to deliver preparatory work for implementation phases of a publicly funded wildfire monitoring satellite.
A Spire satellite carrying payloads for OroraTech was launched on SpaceX Transporter-8 earlier 2023-06.
OroraTech operated a precursor thermal-infrared sensor in orbit for 15 months on a satellite designed, built, and operated by Spire.
A Spire satellite carrying payloads for OroraTech was successfully launched on SpaceX Transporter-8 earlier 2023-06.
OroraTech ordered eight additional thermal imaging satellites from Spire Global to expand its wildfire-monitoring constellation next year.
Spire and OroraTech are partnering on a Canadian Space Agency contract to deliver preparatory work for implementation phases of a publicly funded wildfire monitoring satellite.
OroraTech plans to provide wildfire monitoring data to customers every 30 minutes and within three minutes from detection of a wildfire at any place on Earth.
Spire Global and OroraTech signed an agreement on 2023-06-28 to build, launch, and operate an eight-satellite constellation dedicated to global temperature monitoring.