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 has expanded its sales team to cover the United States, Asia, Europe, and South America.
ICEYE plans to launch between five and eight satellites in 2019 to create an operational constellation of at least six satellites.
ICEYE launched its first SAR microsatellite in early 2018 and launched ICEYE-X2 on 2018-12-03 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission.
Business Finland awarded a 10,000,000 EUR grant to ICEYE on 2018-12-14.
The Aalto University CubeSat team in Finland sparked the creation of Iceye, the first company to launch a synthetic aperture radar microsatellite.
ICEYE plans to launch nine SAR satellites by the end of 2019 and is seeking rides into orbit for those spacecraft.
ICEYE has contracts to launch two additional satellites 2018, one each with SpaceX and Rocket Lab.
On 2018-05-24, ICEYE raised $34,000,000 in a Series B investment round, bringing the Finnish commercial radar satellite operator’s total funding to $53,000,000.
ICEYE launched the first commercial SAR microsatellite, a 70-kilogram spacecraft, in January on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
ICEYE plans to use the Series B funding to further develop its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology, pay for additional satellite launches, and enhance analytics services for customers.
Ursa Space Systems will use ICEYE radar imagery to monitor oil wells and measure global oil storage for data analytics clients under a deal announced at GEOINT 2018.
ICEYE raised $13,000,000 in private equity and an additional $7,000,000 in grants and loans backed by the European Union or the Finnish government.
ICEYE plans to launch ICEYE-X2 on a Falcon 9 Sun Synchronous Orbit A mission and ICEYE-X3 with Rocket Lab.
ICEYE is working with Enpulsion of Austria to use Enpulsion ion propulsion on X2 and X3.
ICEYE-X3 is being partially designed by York Space Systems, with York designing the bus and ICEYE designing the payload, and ICEYE purchasing the bus from York.
ICEYE of Finland produced SAR imagery with its first 70-kilogram satellite launched in January.
ICEYE signed its first contract with ExxonMobil in 2015 for aerial imagery of the Arctic.
ICEYE produced its first Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image in January from the 70-kilogram ICEYE-X1 satellite.
Iceye is a Finnish company operating a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) microsatellite.
Iceye is building an initial constellation of 18 SAR microsatellites.