Since joining ESA’s European Emerging Copernicus Contributing Missions (CCM) activity in June 2023, OroraTech has grown from a space start-up to a leading supplier of thermal sensing data and predictive wildfire solutions.
The Munich-based company now operates a growing constellation of thermal-sensing spacecraft and recently reached a significant milestone – participating in a hands-on workshop directly with the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS).
OroraTech’s relationship with ESA began through the ESA BIC Bavaria and ESA Kick-Start incubation programmes. This was followed in 2022 by co-funding from ESA’s InCubed programme for the development of FOREST-3 – the company’s first fully internally developed spacecraft, which launched in January 2025.
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