Constellr

Constellr is a German Earth observation company headquartered in Freiburg, founded in 2020 as a spinout from a Fraunhofer applied research group that had been developing thermal sensing technology to track water movement and improve agricultural yield. The company provides land surface temperature data and thermal infrared remote measurements used for agricultural, urban and industrial environmental monitoring, forest monitoring, disaster management and coastal monitoring, and it flew its first thermal infrared sensor to the International Space Station in 2022. The first satellite of its planned commercial thermal imaging network, called HiVE, launched in January 2025.