ICEYE has signed a definitive agreement for an oversubscribed $93 million growth funding round, bringing the company's total amount raised to $438 million. The microsatellite manufacturer and synthetic aperture radar satellite operator said Wednesday that the fresh funds will accelerate investment in its constellation of SAR satellites and expand its product portfolio.

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Iceye‘s U.S. business arm has received an initial task order to provide NASA with high-resolution synthetic aperture radar commercial earth observation data products. The order falls under a blank purchase agreement for the provision of a suite of SAR products in support of the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition program, the Finnish microsatellite manufacturer said Wednesday. Under […] More

Space Forge has tapped Andrew Parlock, former ICEYE director, to lead the U.K.-headquartered satellite developer’s newly-established manufacturing operations in the United States. Parlock’s appointment as managing director is in line with Space Forge’s strategic expansion of partnerships, and plan to capitalize on the increasing interest in super materials in the U.S., the company said Wednesday. […] More

Iceye has inked a blank purchase agreement with NASA to supply high-resolution synthetic aperture radar commercial earth observation data products. A comprehensive suite of the Finnish microsatellite manufacturer’s SAR products including small constellation satellite data, evaluation and assessment, data cadence, data latency, area coverage and data usage policy will be delivered to the space agency in support […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and microsatellite manufacturer ICEYE will look into developing new technology involving satellite imaging modes of commercial synthetic aperture radar under a five-year collaborative research agreement.  The cooperative research and development agreement, which involves five research tasks, aims to achieve remote sensing of polar regions and detection of natural hazards across the […] More

ICEYE, a synthetic aperture radar satellite operator, has raised $136 million in a round of Series D financing and will use the capital to further develop its SAR satellite constellation and build up its analytics services. Seraphim Space led the funding round, which brings ICEYE’s total financing to $304 million and saw the participation of […] More

Iceye has signed a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Army to explore the potential applications of synthetic aperture radar imagery and data in military missions. The satellite operator said Thursday it will work with the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Technical Center to examine low-cost SAR systems including satellite tasking, data downlink, […] More

Iceye has unveiled a new satellite imaging capability that uses synthetic aperture radar to detect changes in both small areas and wide locations every 24 hours. The Finland-based company said Tuesday the daily coherent ground track repeat process demonstrated by its constellation of SAR satellites is a “world-first” attribute providing up to very high-resolution visual […] More

Finnish microsatellite company Iceye has opened its U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, where it will manufacture synthetic aperture radar satellites and other spacecraft as part of its partnership with In-Q-Tel to advance delivery of technologies to government agencies.

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Jerry Welsh, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Iceye, has been promoted to CEO of the synthetic aperture radar satellite operator's U.S subsidiary. Eric Jensen, former vice president of global sales for satellite systems at Boeing, joined the Iceye US organization as president.

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Ursa has agreed to distribute Finland-based ICEYE's synthetic aperture radar data products across the global market under an extended partnership.

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ICEYE‘s U.S. subsidiary has secured a contract to provide Earth observation data support services to the Defense Department‘s innovation unit. Mike Lyons, CEO of ICEYE U.S., said in a statement published Monday the company aims to help the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental address national security challenges through the use of data. ICEEYE is headquartered in Espoo, […] More