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 is the second customer to sign a launch contract with Isar Aerospace after Airbus Defence and Space agreed in April to launch an Earth observation satellite aboard a Spectrum rocket.
OroraTech expects to expand its satellite constellation to as many as 100 satellites by 2026.
Orora Technologies closed a Series A funding round worth 5,800,000 EUR on 2021-06-01.
OroraTech plans by 2023 to deploy a minimum viable constellation of 14 satellites, likely as a hybrid of payloads on Spire cubesats and its own satellites.
OroraTech is planning to open offices in Australia and the United States to handle sales and later support technical development of its system.
Munich-based OroraTech will use the Series A funding to develop and launch the first satellites in its constellation of small satellites equipped with thermal infrared imagers.
OroraTech has an agreement with Spire to include its thermal infrared imager on a 6U Spire cubesat launching in December.