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Other startups developing thermal imagery constellations include Germany’s OroraTech and Washington-based Hydrosat.
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.
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.
OroraTech is a Munich-based startup founded in 2018 to develop an early-warning system for wildfires.
OroraTech planned to begin launching a minimum viable constellation of dedicated wildfire-monitoring cubesats by 2023.
OroraTech currently offers its wildfire-monitoring service by utilizing data from various available satellite sources, including Europe’s Copernicus program.
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.
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.
On 2021-09-07, Isar Aerospace signed a contract with OroraTech to launch the company’s wildfire monitoring cubesat constellation.
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.
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 expects to expand its satellite constellation to as many as 100 satellites by 2026.
OroraTech has an agreement with Spire to include its thermal infrared imager on a 6U Spire cubesat launching in December.
Orora Technologies closed a Series A funding round worth 5,800,000 EUR on 2021-06-01.
OroraTech is planning to open offices in Australia and the United States to handle sales and later support technical development of its system.