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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Another Spire satellite carrying payloads for OroraTech was launched on SpaceX Transporter-8 in June 2023.
Spire worked with OroraTech to validate the FOREST (Forest Observation & Recognition Experimental Smallsat Thermal Detector) constellation concept and provided the satellite platform, integration, and access to its ground station network.
OroraTech has successfully operated a precursor thermal sensor in orbit on a satellite designed, built, and operated by Spire for 15 months.
FOREST-2’s thermal imager is designed to cover a width of 400 km, four times the coverage of OroraTech’s debut payload FOREST-1.
Spire Global signed a deal on 2023-06-28 to build and operate the eight satellites for OroraTech.
Aboard Transporter-8, Spire launched FOREST-2, a 6U satellite carrying a proprietary thermal-infrared optical payload and a data processing unit for OroraTech.
FOREST-2 is the second satellite that Spire Space Services developed and launched for OroraTech following FOREST-1.
FOREST-2 is the second satellite that Spire Space Services has developed and launched for OroraTech following FOREST-1.
Aboard Transporter-8, Spire launched FOREST-2, a 6U satellite carrying a proprietary thermal-infrared optical payload and a data processing unit for OroraTech.
FOREST-2 is the second satellite that Spire Space Services has developed and launched for OroraTech.
Aboard Transporter-8, Spire launched FOREST-2, a 6U satellite carrying a proprietary thermal-infrared optical payload and a data processing unit for OroraTech.
OroraTech partnered with Spire Space Services to launch its first payloads, a thermal infrared camera and a data processing unit, on a Spire 6U satellite.
Spire Global will partner with OroraTech under the Canadian Space Agency contract for WildFireSat preparatory work.
OroraTech is planning to provide data insights to customers every 30 minutes and within 3 minutes from detection at any place on Earth.
In 2022, OroraTech expanded its footprint with experts in the United States, Canada, and Luxembourg.
OroraTech will launch its second thermal-infrared camera into space in May 2023.
OroraTech planned a satellite constellation to achieve a 12-hour revisit by 2024 and a 30-minute revisit by 2026.
OroraTech launched its first uncooled thermal-infrared camera in space in early 2022.
OroraTech’s second satellite is slated to launch in May 2023 on a SpaceX Transporter rideshare mission.
OroraTech’s second satellite improves camera resolution from 200 m to 80 m.