Google, Muon Space launch satellites to combat California wildfires

There were more than 4000 forests in California this year, including deadly fires in January near Los Angeles. Now, Google and Satellite MUON Space are working to prevent this from happening again.

They shoot satellites that operate in space, hoping that they will discover fires more quickly and help the crews learn more about how the fire is spread.

“We will be able to see the fires smaller than a swimming pool. You can think about it is approximately five and five meters. So, this is somewhat, as you know, at least ten times, at least 100 times younger than any of the current satellite systems that you can see,” said Johnny Deir, CEO of MUON Space.

MUON Space and Collective Google are to help firefighters respond more quickly and equip them with better tools.

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“Fire Sat is explicitly designed with very high -resolution heat cameras. They can see fires when they are very small early in their lives, but they can also set them as soon as they become very big,” Dyer said.

These shooting satellites will be able to give fire agencies a deeper view of how fires spread. (Sunny tsai / Foxsbos)

MUON Space launched the first satellite in March. By 2030, the company plans to finish its final consisting of 52 satellites, providing global coverage and producing new thermal images of the areas exposed to fire every 20 minutes.

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“Basically, what we will actually reach in fire agencies is not those pictures. We will give them higher level products, things like the ocean … We will give them products like density maps, so that you can think about a kind of thermal map of this fire temperature here.”

The company’s partners also trust that these satellites will provide a large boost for education, response and fire protection.

“We will be able to see the full development of fires from when they start when completing, and this helps us to design fires better,” said Google Research.

There will be a total of 52 satellites in the final constellation to provide new information every 20 minutes. (Google / Foxbusience)

Some fire agencies are excited about the new opportunities that these satellites may bring.

“We need to understand how hot fires to understand the place where we can reduce or control our repression strategies … this will help us target the additional strategic oppression efforts such as air carriers and firefighters, and independent helicopters, whatever the future, will come to us,” said retired retired in California Kate Dargan.

Kate Darghan worked with Cal Fire for 30 years and witnessed forest fires in destruction.

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“For this reason, it will be the case,” Darghan said.

MUON Space and Google will release the first pictures of the fires taken by the satellite later this month.

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The three satellites to be launched in March will send new information to the ground every 12 hours.