RoGo Fire
Fighting wildfires with intelligence
Trades as RoGO Communications, a name it uses over the same legal entity rather than a rebrand. Widened from wildfire to critical communications generally, but has not left space: NASA awarded it SBIR Phase I in 2024 and Phase II in 2025 for its satellite-linked wildfire platform. RoGo Fire operates in the earth observation sector of the space industry, is headquartered in United States, was founded in 2018, is self-funded, employs 1-10 people.
RoGo Fire at a glance
| Status | Activechecked August 2026Trades as RoGO Communications, a name it uses over the same legal entity rather than a rebrand. Widened from wildfire to critical communications generally, but has not left space: NASA awarded it SBIR Phase I in 2024 and Phase II in 2025 for its satellite-linked wildfire platform. |
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| Now operating as | RoGO Communications |
| Sector | Earth Observation |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Stage | Self-funded |
| Team size | 1-10 |
| Website | rogofire.com |
Record last updated August 2026 · how we verify · spotted something outdated? Tell us.
Timeline & funding
- January 2025Product
- 2025Funding
- 2024Funding
- May 2023Funding
- October 2021Company
- May 2019Funding
- 2018CompanyFounded
Mission
Satellite-linked tracking and messaging that keeps wildland firefighting crews in contact where there is no cell coverage.
RoGO builds communications for crews working beyond the reach of cellular networks. The company was founded after the Yarnell Hill Fire killed nineteen firefighters in 2013, and its systems are aimed at the gap that disaster exposed: crews on a fire line who cannot be located, warned or coordinated. Its platform combines satellite links, GPS tracking and messaging so that incident commanders can see where people and equipment are, and reach them, in country where no other signal exists. The work has since broadened beyond wildfire into search and rescue, disaster response and defence, and NASA has funded its wildfire application through two rounds of SBIR.
Team
- Rodger Goossen · Co-founder & CEO
- Derek Goossen · Co-founder & Chief Strategic Officer
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