ICEYE is a Finnish New Space technology company and the global leader in small Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite operations for Earth Observation. ICEYE designs, builds, and operates a commercial constellation of SAR microsatellites, the largest in the world, providing high-resolution imagery of the Earth's surface, day or night, and even through cloud cover. They offer solutions, satellite data, and data fusion to governments and commercial industries for applications such as disaster management, security, maritime and infrastructure monitoring. ICEYE has partnerships with organizations like the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), NATO, and Geoscape Australia, and supplies SAR data to allied nations.
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ICEYE builds its growth around high-revisit SAR satellite constellations.
ICEYE handed Poland operational control of the four-satellite POLSARIS radar constellation less than twelve months after the contract was signed.
ICEYE launched the POLSARIS satellites and trained the Polish military operators.
ICEYE’s chief executive is not named in the article, but the company is positioned as a supplier of sovereign space-based intelligence to defense customers.
ICEYE doubled its business in 2025.
An ICEYE-Rheinmetall joint venture secured a €1.7 billion contract to provide Earth observation data to Germany’s armed forces from late 2025 to the end of 2030.
CHORUS combines an MDA-built satellite carrying a broad-area C-band radar with a trailing high-resolution X-band satellite supplied through a partnership with ICEYE.
Planet Labs and Iceye signed an agreement in early 2025 to provide synthetic aperture radar and electro-optical capabilities for Sweden's space operations.
NASA expanded its Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program in October 2023 by awarding contracts to seven companies for earth observation data and services.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded ICEYE a radio frequency geolocation commercial satellite data contract.
ICEYE 1 and ICEYE 2 are two synthetic aperture radar satellites supporting Finland’s ICEYE constellation and Greece’s Hellenic Fire System program.
Exolaunch deployed two Iceye satellites that will support sovereign intelligence for Iceye customers.
Finland’s ICEYE and Bulgaria’s Endurosat were among the companies that raised large rounds in 2025.
Rheinmetall formed a joint venture with Iceye in November 2025 called Rheinmetall Iceye Space Solutions.
Rheinmetall holds a 60% majority stake in Rheinmetall Iceye Space Solutions.
Production of the first satellites for Rheinmetall Iceye Space Solutions’ SAR constellation is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2026 at the company’s facilities in Neuss.
Rheinmetall Iceye Space Solutions received a contract worth 1.7 billion euros from the German armed forces in December 2025.
Rheinmetall Iceye Space Solutions will provide space reconnaissance data through exclusive access to a constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites.
Rheinmetall holds a 60% stake in Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions.
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions secured a €1.7 billion contract from the German armed forces in December 2025 to deliver space-based reconnaissance data through exclusive access to a synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation.