\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program has acquired commercial datasets from OroraTech.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n OroraTech operates an active constellation of satellites equipped with multispectral thermal infrared imagers that observe in the midwave (MWIR) and longwave (LWIR) infrared bands. The constellation is designed for high revisit frequency: in 2026, OroraTech provides up to twice\u2011daily coverage, with revisit intervals as short as 15 minutes planned for future deployments.<\/p>\n OroraTech data products available through CSDA include Level 1 thermal infrared imagery, Near Real-Time (NRT) Active fire detections, and Land Surface Temperature (LST). Applications span wildfire detection and monitoring (emergency response, pre- and post-analysis), diurnal studies including urban heat mapping, water-stress monitoring, agricultural and aquacultural monitoring, meteorological use cases, and environmental research.<\/p>\n All newly awarded commercial data provider products are currently undergoing CSDA evaluation. If you have any questions about these products, please email CSDA Support<\/a>.<\/p>\n Data products and derivatives for imagery must contain copyright markings as specified below, where YYYY is the year of the image acquisition.<\/p>\n To help CSDA identify your publications, we request that you include the following acknowledgment when publishing work created using these data:<\/p>\n \u201cThis work used data made available through the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program.\u201d Authorized users should send CSDA<\/a> a courtesy copy of any publications that include CSDA-distributed data.<\/p>\n Access to this data is governed by the CSDA End User License Agreements (EULAs<\/a>). The minimum access level for data is the USG license. Depending on the specific data products provided, some or all data may also be available under higher-tier CSDA licenses, including USG-Plus and Public licenses.<\/p>\n Under the applicable license tier, authorized users may include:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ororatech-heroimage.png?w=2048\")
<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nObtaining Data<\/h2>\n
Copyright<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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CSDA Acknowledgment<\/h2>\n
Documentation<\/h2>\n
OroraTech Commercial Data Available to Authorized CSDA Users<\/h2>\n
Satellite Mission Characteristics<\/h3>\n
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\n F002<\/strong><\/td>\n OTC-P1<\/strong><\/td>\n Final capacity<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n # satellites<\/strong><\/td>\n 1<\/td>\n 8<\/td>\n 100-200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Status<\/strong><\/td>\n Operational<\/td>\n Operational<\/td>\n \n Start of Ops.<\/strong><\/td>\n Q3 2023<\/td>\n Q1 2026<\/td>\n Est. 2030<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n End of Ops.<\/strong><\/td>\n Q4 2026<\/td>\n Q1 2029<\/td>\n \n Altitude<\/strong><\/td>\n 525 km<\/td>\n 525×550 km<\/td>\n \n SSO MLTAN<\/strong><\/td>\n 01:30<\/td>\n 16:00 \u00b1 15min<\/td>\n \n Inclination<\/strong><\/td>\n 97.7\u00b0<\/td>\n 97.53\u00b0<\/td>\n \n Revisit time\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n 7 days max.<\/td>\n 0.5 days max.<\/td>\n 15 min<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Instrument<\/strong><\/td>\n 2x SAFIRE to double swath<\/td>\n 2x SAFIRE to double swath<\/td>\n \n\n
\n Edge processing power<\/strong><\/td>\n Up to 21 TOPS \/ 1.69 TFLOPs each, optimized for image processing and AI.
Updateable software stack.
On-orbit fire detection.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\nInstrument Characteristics<\/h3>\n
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\n Instrument Name<\/strong><\/td>\n SAFIRE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Spectral Bands<\/strong><\/td>\n MWIR: 3.4 \u2013 4.2 \u03bcm; LWIR: 10.4 \u2013 12.5 \u03bcm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Dynamic range<\/strong><\/td>\n MWIR: 300 – 650 K; LWIR: 260 – 640 K<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n GSD at Nadir<\/strong><\/td>\n Design: 200 m \/ 210 m, Threshold (max.): 250 m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Swath per instrument <\/strong>
(double per satellite)<\/strong><\/td>\nDesign: 210 km \/ 220 km, Threshold (min.): 170 km<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n Product Characteristics<\/h3>\n
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\n Level 1C<\/strong><\/td>\n Level 2 NRT Active Fire<\/strong><\/td>\n Level 2 LST<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Product definition<\/strong><\/td>\n Orthorectified and geolocated multispectral raster tiles; every target pixel averaged over several frames<\/td>\n Near Real-Time fire detections<\/td>\n Atmospherically and emissivity-corrected Land Surface Temperature raster tiles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Units<\/strong><\/td>\n Radiances and brightness temperature (Top-of-atmosphere)<\/td>\n Fire detections<\/td>\n Kelvin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Format<\/strong><\/td>\n GeoTIFF, netCDF<\/td>\n GeoJSON, netCDF<\/td>\n GeoTIFF, netCDF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Product Resolution<\/strong><\/td>\n 200 m<\/td>\n 200 m<\/td>\n 200 m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Latency\u00a0median (OTC-P1)<\/strong><\/td>\n NRT: <9h, NTC: <48h<\/td>\n <1h<\/td>\n NRT: <24h, NTC: 7 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Performance<\/strong><\/td>\n Absolute Radiometric accuracy RMSE:<\/strong>
LWIR: <3K
MWIR: <8K<\/td>\nMin detectable fire size:<\/strong>
4x4m<\/td>\nAbsolute Radiometric accuracy RMSE:<\/strong>
<3K<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n Acquisition type<\/strong><\/td>\n archive and tasking<\/td>\n archive and tasking<\/td>\n archive and tasking<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n Authorized Data Use and Users<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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