New satellite constellation will scan the entire Earth every 20 minutes to find wildfires

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Three months after Muon Space launched its FireSat Protoflight satellite, the spacecraft's first images have been released.

FireSat is the first in a proposed constellation of more than 50 satellites that Muon Space hopes to use to monitor and detect wildfires. These first images were taken from low-Earth orbit, as the satellite used its multi-band infrared (IR) instrument to scan the landscape for specific heat signatures that could be indicative of wildfires.