Wildfire-detection satellites launch through the smoke they were built to see

Claim

The first FireSat wildfire-detection satellites launched through the very smoke they were built to see, able to spot a five-by-five-metre fire through smoke and clouds on the way to hourly global imagery by 2029, while New Horizons woke from a 321-day nap in the Kuiper Belt.

Reported metric: 5x5 m detection

Reporting date: 2026-07-19 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to July 19, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)