Greece’s Ministry of Digital Governance has awarded German startup OroraTech a €20mn contract to build a satellite-based early warning system for wildfires, which last year alone cost the Mediterranean nation almost €2bn in damages.
The national defence system will consist of four thermal satellites and a network of ground sensors and processing services. OroraTech will develop it in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and several Greek universities and companies.
A spin-out from the Technical University of Munich, OroraTech builds thermal imaging satellites that can detect wildfires from space and monitor their spread. The company so far has launched two satellites, the first of which blasted off into low Earth orbit upon a SpaceX Falcon 9 in June last year.
Greece’s national wildfire system will go into full operations once OroraTech has got its full constellation of 100 shoebox-sized satellites in orbit, scheduled for 2026. “However, we will be delivering Greece data immediately with our current network of thermal platforms, including our Wildfire Solution platform,” a company spokesperson told TNW.
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