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 raised an additional 15,000,000 EUR to support work on future satellites.
OroraTech’s second satellite features an improved thermal imager with a swath width increasing from 100 km to 400 km.
Edaphon, a Belgium-based climate impact fund, led the new 15,000,000 EUR funding round for OroraTech alongside several existing investors.
OroraTech’s first satellite produced thermal-infrared imagery with sharper resolution than the system was originally designed for.
OroraTech plans to launch the initial eight-satellite constellation in May 2024.
OroraTech is expanding geographically by hiring people in Canada and South America.
The 15,000,000 EUR funding round is an extension of OroraTech’s Series A round that raised 5,800,000 EUR in June 2021.
OroraTech, a Germany-based startup, deployed its first satellite FOREST-1 in January and focuses on monitoring wildfires.
OroraTech plans to launch the next eight satellites by the end of 2023 to provide insights during afternoon peak burn time.
FOREST-1, OroraTech’s first satellite equipped with thermal, mid-infrared, and RGB cameras, was launched onboard a Spire nanosatellite in January.
Other startups developing thermal imagery constellations include Germany’s OroraTech and Washington-based Hydrosat.
OroraTech’s next payload is slated to launch in the first quarter of 2023 onboard a Spire satellite.
Spire built three 6U satellites named LEMUR-2-DJIRANG, LEMUR-2-MIRIWARI, and Ororatech for RF-based data collection.
OroraTech launched the first in a series of cubesats equipped with a thermal infrared camera on Transporter-3 to provide early warnings of wildfires.
Weaver Labs will collaborate with OroraTech as part of the Track & Trust consortium led by Datarella.
Under the 2021-09-07 contract, Isar Aerospace will conduct multiple Spectrum launches to deploy more than 10 OroraTech cubesats into sun-synchronous orbit between 2022 and 2026.
OroraTech is a Munich-based startup founded in 2018 to develop an early-warning system for wildfires.
On 2021-09-07, Isar Aerospace signed a contract with OroraTech to launch the company’s wildfire monitoring cubesat constellation.
OroraTech currently offers its wildfire-monitoring service by utilizing data from various available satellite sources, including Europe’s Copernicus program.
OroraTech planned to begin launching a minimum viable constellation of dedicated wildfire-monitoring cubesats by 2023.