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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Commercial imaging resolution has reached under 0.3 m with Airbus and Maxar leading the optical sector and ICEYE, Capella, and Umbra leading the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sector, all targeting the defense market.
Airbus and Maxar are leading in the under 30cm optical resolution market, while ICEYE, Capella, and Umbra lead in the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) market.
Iceye operates a constellation of SAR satellites that can collect imagery regardless of weather and lighting conditions.
Seraphim Space Investment Trust plans to acquire Seraphim Capital’s stakes in Spire Global, Arqit, Iceye, and D-orbit once each firm’s separate fundraising activities close 2021.
The Transporter-2 payload manifest included synthetic aperture radar satellites from Capella, Iceye, and Umbra.
ICEYE partnered with Makoto Higashi to serve as General Manager of ICEYE’s business operations in Japan.
ICEYE plans to open an office in Tokyo within 12 months and expand to an initial 10-person team serving the Japanese market.
ICEYE has launched 10 radar satellite missions since early 2018, including dedicated satellites for customers.
ICEYE has raised $152,000,000 in financing to date.
ICEYE reported $50,000,000 in signed contracts for 2020.
In 2020, Iceye had signed contracts valued at $50,000,000.
Iceye has launched 10 satellites to date but not all launched satellites continue to operate.
Makoto Higashi retired from Japan Space Imaging in 2019 after a 40-year industry career and then joined Iceye.
Iceye operates SAR satellites in its own constellation and conducts dedicated SAR missions for customers.
Iceye plans to open an office in Tokyo within a year and begin serving Japanese government and commercial customers with a 10-person staff as of a 2021-06-23 company notice.
Since 2018 when Iceye began operating the first small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite, the company has established offices in Poland, the United Kingdom, and Spain and a manufacturing facility in Southern California.
Iceye has raised $152,000,000 in funding to date.
Stakes in the remaining four ventures—Spire Global, Arqit, Iceye, and D-Orbit—are set to be acquired by 2020-12-31, subject to the outcome of their ongoing fundraising activity.
Iceye was approved on 2021-06-10 for inclusion in ESA’s Earthnet Program Third Party Missions (TPM) data portfolio.
The European Space Agency will offer researchers free access to Iceye’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery including the ability to task Iceye satellites.