Australia’s Green Triangle Fire Alliance Uses OroraTech to Prepare for Bushfire Season
The Green Triangle Fire Alliance (GTFA) has signed a pilot contract for OroraTech’s satellite-based Wildfire Intelligence Service over the 2021/22 fire season.
OroraTech Comes in First Place to Win the Spark Prize 2021
OroraTech was named the winner of The Spark – German Digital Award presented by Handelsblatt and McKinsey.
The FOREST Series:
OroraTech Goes To Glasgow
After finishing the development of the FOREST payload, OroraTech travels to Glasgow to assemble the camera system into a CubeSat, that later will be launched into space.
The FOREST Series:
Final Integration
Read about the different phases in satellite development OroraTech went through during their four final months of working on the FOREST mission.
The FOREST Series:
How To Build A Satellite
FOREST stands for Forest Observation and Recognition Experimental Smallsat Thermal Detector – say that five times fast! The idea was to build a new generation hyperspectral thermal camera that is attached to a powerful processing unit.
Servus From Munich!
New experts on board, first satellite launching, big things ahead – what have we been up to?
Isar Aerospace and OroraTech Announce Partnership to Launch Satellites for Tackling Global Wildfire Crises
Munich, 07 September 2021 – Isar Aerospace, the leading and most well-funded private European launch service provider focusing on small and medium satellite deployment, announced today that it has entered into a firm launch service agreement with the pioneering NewSpace startup OroraTech to launch the company’s satellites into space
Münchner Merkur – Waldbrände: Münchner Start-up will Gefahr früher erkennen — „Jeder Kreis steht für einen Brandherd“
Einmal in Fahrt, sind Waldbrände nicht mehr zu bändigen. Für wirksame Löschmaßnahmen braucht es ein wirksames Frühwarnsystem. So eines bietet das Münchner Start-up Ororatech an. Rupert Amann, Co-founder & Head of Satellite Development, mit OroraTech satellite München – „Es ist ein bisschen unaufgeräumt“, entschuldigt sich Rupert Amann. Doch der Raum im dritten Stock des Münchner […]
TechCrunch – OroraTech’s Space-Based Early Wildfire Warnings Spark $7M Investment
With wildfires becoming an ever more devastating annual phenomenon, it is in the whole planet’s interest to spot them and respond as early as possible — and the best vantage point for that is space. OroraTech is a German startup building a constellation of small satellites to power a global wildfire warning system, and will […]
Space News – German startup raises funding for wildfire monitoring satellites
WASHINGTON — A German startup has raised an initial funding round that will enable it to begin launching a constellation of satellites to detect wildfires. Orora Technologies, or OroraTech, announced June 1 it closed a Series A round worth 5.8 million euros ($7.1 million). Findus Venture and Ananda Impact Ventures led the round, with contributions […]