Author Topic: ICEYE SAR Constellation (Read 18285 times)

su27k · « **Reply #40 on:** 02/04/2022 12:25 pm »

Satellite-imagery specialist ICEYE raises $136 million to better monitor catastrophes like floods

Quote from: CNBC

* Finnish satellite-imagery venture ICEYE closed an $136 million round of venture capital fundraising, led by U.K. fund Seraphim Space.

* The company plans to add to its spacecraft fleet in orbit and further develop its product line in natural catastrophe detection.

* “Flood monitoring is really the prime product right now ... [but] we want to cover wildfire, we want to cover wind, we want to cover hail,” ICEYE CEO co-founder and CEO Rafal Modrzewski told CNBC.

gongora · « **Reply #41 on:** 02/04/2022 02:11 pm »

https://spacenews.com/iceye-raises-136-million-in-series-d-round

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Iceye plans to loft 11 satellites in 2022, after launching seven in 2021.

gongora · « **Reply #42 on:** 07/01/2022 03:16 am »

https://www.iceye.com/press/press-releases/iceye-expands-its-business-to-offer-complete-satellite-missions-for-its-customers

Helsinki, FINLAND – June 28, 2022 – ICEYE, an Earth observation company operating the world’s largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation, today announced the establishment of a new line of business focused solely on delivering fully operational satellite missions to customers looking for their own orbital SAR capabilities.

Governments and large multinational corporations are able to purchase their own radar imaging satellites from ICEYE and operate them independently, or arrange ICEYE to manage the spacecraft exclusively on their behalf.

“We have pioneered advances in electronics, spacecraft engineering and on-orbit computation so that we can manufacture high performance, smaller and less expensive SAR satellites to meet the imaging requirements for international customers,” said Rafal Modrzewski, CEO and Co-founder of ICEYE. “We have been listening carefully to the market and we are responding to the strong need for this unique offering.”

The new Missions line of business will be led by Steve Young, a seasoned space and aerospace professional, formerly acting as ICEYE’s Vice President of Business Development and Sales. Prior to joining ICEYE, Young worked in executive positions at BAE Systems. In 2015, he helped co-found the New Space company Earth-i, a high-resolution satellite imaging provider, after a previous role as the Head of Business Development and Sales for Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). In 2011, he was made a fellow at the Royal Aeronautical Society.

“For the longest time, the potential to see anywhere on the planet has been there, but it’s never been fully realized,” said Steve Young, President, Satellite Missions, ICEYE. “Part of that has been due to the limitations of the current systems which can’t image at night or through clouds. ICEYE’s SAR satellites can see day or night and during bad weather. This is truth data that you simply can’t hide from. As the only organization in the world to rapidly deliver proven high-precision SAR satellites, we are excited to offer our ICEYE SAR satellites for customer missions and enable organizations to have independent control of this reliable and repeatable information source.”

ICEYE has already secured complete satellite missions with several international customers including, two of the satellites launched in May 2022 which were provided to the Brazilian Air Force (BAF). The BAF will own and operate the satellites in support of environmental and national security objectives. Due to South America’s almost constant cloud-cover in certain areas, radar imaging satellites are the only truly viable solution to reliably capture the data required.

In December 2021, ICEYE also entered a partnership with Canada’s MDA Ltd. to supply a SAR spacecraft for its next generation commercial Earth observation system known as CHORUS. The ICEYE satellite will work in conjunction with MDA’s broad area C-band SAR satellite following the same ground track to enable cross-cue operations between the two satellites.

Unlike traditional Earth observation satellites, ICEYE’s radar imaging satellites, each weighing around 100 kg, can form high-resolution images of areas of the Earth in all lighting and weather conditions multiple times a day. Imagery can be collected over very wide areas, up to thousands of square kilometers, or over small and precise points of interest. In the high-resolution collection mode, the images are detailed enough to see changes on the ground as small as footprints across a field or vehicle tracks in the sand.

Fmedici · « **Reply #43 on:** 08/18/2022 12:09 pm »

A charity foundation used the money they were given to buy Bayraktar drones for the Ukrainian army (that ended up being gifted by the manifacturer) to buy an ICEYE satellite:

https://prytulafoundation.notion.site/Ukrainians-you-aim-for-the-stars-54b2d926b4da41d69c03c52831ad161b

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August 18, 2022 Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation purchased a satellite.

The Foundation has signed the deal with the ICEYE company, which gives the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine full access to all the systems and full capabilities for one of ICEYE’s satellites already in orbit over the region.

ICEYE will provide access to its constellation of SAR satellites, allowing the Ukrainian Armed Forces to receive radar satellite imagery on critical locations with a high revisit frequency. The satellite will provide the Government of Ukraine with ICEYE’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imaging capabilities.

**Serhiy Prytula,** founder of the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation, notes, “ICEYE owns the most developed radar satellite imaging technology in the world as of today. This agreement is a significant step in responding to the Government of Ukraine’s urgent request for critical earth observation data and it will greatly benefit our Armed Forces.”

“With this agreement, ICEYE further builds on its efforts to provide objective data and technological support to Ukraine,” says **Rafal Modrzewski,** CEO of ICEYE. “We firmly believe SAR technology and its capabilities will continue to add significant value to the Government of Ukraine, now enabled by the work of the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation.”

ICEYE delivers proven and reliable Earth Observation solutions and is the only organization in the world to offer the rapid delivery of high-precision SAR satellites and data to its customers. Unlike traditional Earth observation satellites, ICEYE’s small radar imaging satellites can form high-resolution images of areas of the Earth in daylight, at night, and through cloud cover.

The Foundation would like to thank the Ukrainian space technologies leader, founder of EOS DATA Analytics **Max Polyakov** for all support and expertise granted for the project.

This deal was closed with the fund raised by the People’s Bayraktar project funds June 22-24, 2022 by the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation in cooperation with blogger Ihor Lachenkov. **The Baykar company** decided to give three Bayraktar TB-2 UAVs for free. This allowed us to use the saved 600 million UAH (17 million USD) to purchase the satellite.

illectro · « **Reply #44 on:** 08/18/2022 11:21 pm »

It sounds to me like they’ve rented the right to task a single satellite when it’s passing over Ukraine, rented for a year rather than buying outright. So it’s equivalent to being able to schedule an observation a day for the next year.

At least that’s how I read it.