LONGUEUIL, Que. — Canada is investing $72 million on a novel satellite constellation that will monitor active forest fires across the country, the Canadian Space Agency announced Friday.

The constellation will keep a close eye on wildfires, eventually imaging nearly all of the Earth’s surface once every 20 ...

according to the Canadian Space Agency. (Jackie Hong/CBC) A new satellite system for monitoring wildfires in Canada will be a boon to firefighting efforts in the North, officials say.

A Google-backed mission to detect wildfires from space launched a prototype satellite last week, which is now communicating with its developers on Earth. “The devastating wildfires in Los ...

The constellation is a joint effort between Muon Space and the Earth Fire Alliance, a nonprofit supported by Google, Muon Space, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Gordon and Betty Moore ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick LONGUEUIL, Que. — Canada is investing $72 million on a novel satellite constellation that will monitor active forest fires across the country, the Canadian Space ...

The first satellite of the Google-backed FireSat constellation successfully made it to orbit over the weekend, kicking off what promises to be a new era in wildfire detection and monitoring. The ...