Hellenic Fire System satellite undergoing magnetic cleaning

Four infrared imaging Hellenic Fire System satellites dedicated to detecting and monitoring wildfires across the country are now being prepared for launch this spring. As part of the final preparations, these four CubeSats have recently undergone magnetic cleaning at the European Space Agency’s facilities in the Netherlands.

The upcoming four-CubeSat constellation has been developed by OroraTech to provide Greece with sovereign, space-based thermal monitoring capabilities. Given the country’s vulnerability to wildfires, the system is designed to detect, monitor and characterise fires with high reliability, delivering systematic coverage of the Greek territory.

Each satellite, based on an 8U CubeSat platform equipped with one deployable solar panel measuring 42 × 22 cm, carries two infrared imagers operating in the midwave infrared and longwave infrared spectral bands.

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