Don't Call Us a Unicorn - Yet
OroraTech 2026: Building the Planet’s Thermal Intelligence Infrastructure
Don't Call Us a Unicorn - Yet
OroraTech 2026: Building the Planet’s Thermal Intelligence Infrastructure
In January 2026, Handelsblatt - one of Germany’s most respected business publications - named OroraTech among the country’s most promising companies with unicorn potential (beware: the article is in German). This recognition from Tech Tour, Europe’s top venture capital analysts, highlights not just our valuation trajectory, but the fundamental shift we’re leading in how the world sees and responds to its most urgent threats.
But we aren’t going to call ourselves a unicorn. Not yet.
2026 is going to be different for us - the beginning of something big. We are no longer just launching satellites. We’re building the thermal intelligence backbone of the planet.
2025: The Year We Proved What’s Possible
This past year, we started the ball rolling - OroraTech started to build its full momentum. We expanded our constellation from 2 to 14 satellites, including the successful Kepler launch last month, that have increased our thermal data acquisition and revisit rate. Because of that, today we operate more thermal satellites than any other nation or company worldwide.
We aren’t saying that to sound good in the media - that’s a strategic goal as we continue to build our network.
In 2025, we began to transform thermal Earth observation from a niche capability into a vital layer of planetary data. We expanded our operations across the world, U.S. and Greece office, and secured our first wildfire detection contract with the state of Idaho. Canada soon followed with a national contract for early wildfire warning, underscoring the cross-border urgency of climate-related disasters.
Today, OroraTech monitors an area about the size of the European Union, over 407 million hectares - a mind-blowing number that is hard to put into perspective. Every acre is measured and analyzed daily in infrared. With our solutions, governments and agencies are no longer reactive. They’re proactive. They’re prepared.
2026: From Fire Alerts to Foundational Infrastructure
We’re proud of what our customers achieved using our wildfire tools, using detections and other data tools, including Fire Spread, Burnt Area mapping, and now the upgraded Wildfire Solution. But behind the scenes, we were working on something just as big.
In 2026, OroraTech will complete its transition to a fully vertically integrated space company. We now design our sensors, build and launch our own satellites, manage our ground stations, and process the thermal data ourselves, all the way from orbit to Wildfire Solution. This is a necessary transition - without owning the entire process, we cannot provide the performance that our customers demand to do their jobs. We aren’t just observing. We’re responding to the needs of our customers and the world.
Because of this, for 2026, we are orienting ourselves around upgrading our technology and systems, expanding our product offerings, and creating a truly revolutionary backbone of the thermal Earth Observation economy. We will be the thermal infrastructure for planet Earth
We want to be plain in our goal: we aim to build the operating system for thermal intelligence. Our satellites won’t just see what is there. They will constantly observe with a fast revisit rate. They see and detect early with valuable insights for all kinds of stakeholders. They will help save lives and protect ecosystems.
Why Now? Why OroraTech?
Wildfires aren’t magically ending. Climate disasters are accelerating. Infrastructure risk is rising. And AI models need real-world, real-time data to make accurate predictions. We are unique position: we have satellites in orbit, right now, providing data that nobody else can.
As Martin Langer, our CEO & CTO, explains:
"We now have the technology, momentum, and customer trust to become the default infrastructure layer for physical-world AI and thermal digital twins. By 2030, we are the operating system for thermal intelligence."
The future has never been about simple pictures from space. It's about having an interactive, constantly updated view from orbit. It’s thermal data put in the hands of people making a real difference. And it’s intelligent insights to make this as easy as possible.
With every satellite we launch and every anomaly we detect, OroraTech is helping the world respond faster, predict better, and act smarter. The journey from wildfire detection to global thermal infrastructure has only just begun.