August 2018
Earth observation game-changer
... satellite body and two elements deploying to either side to create a 3.25 m wide antenna array. Products from the ICEYE constellation will find application in urban planning, tracking port activity, sea ice monitoring, environmental monitoring and...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
...persistent coverage with different sensors such as higher resolution streaming video. Airbus sees HAPS as complementary to satellites. ICEYE-X1 SAR satellite imagery and illustrated oil storage fill-rate analysis will be used by Ursa Space to monitor...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... for investors. For example, a Finnish company called ICEYE has developed a miniaturised synthetic aperture radar (SAR)... cloud, which optical does not. The constellation of five ICEYE satellites produces images at 50 cm resolution and each is about...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
...-infrared and red-edge, the latter of which will enable valuable data measurements of vegetation from space; Iceye, a Finnish firm whose future 18-spacecraft synthetic aperture radar (SAR) microsatellite constellation will revisit targets of interest...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
... based on low Earth orbiting spacecraft much smaller than that massive 60-metre antenna, and companies such as ICEYE have been successful in putting this kind of sensor in a microsatellite. Meanwhile, in another example, Planet runs a factory that...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... and notify the disaster responders about the harvested information. A colourised preview image of the high resolution ICEYE image of Beletweyne, Somalia, taken on 16 May 2020. This was the first image provided through the Charter...
