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ICEYE and European Space Agency Announce Partnership to Change the Future of Earth Observation
New Space movement in Europe ramps up with the aim of improving access to crucial satellite imaging data.
Helsinki, FINLAND – March 26, 2018 – ICEYE, a New Space satellite manufacturer active in synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) technology, today announced a cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA) to mutually explore opportunities provided by ICEYE’s technology. By using ICEYE’s SAR satellite technology and imagery, this new agreement demonstrates ESA’s interest in taking advantage of recent innovative New Space developments to foster business.
The cooperation encompasses activities that focus on the design of the ICEYE microsatellite and its X-band SAR instrument, as well identifying the most promising applications for the data collected by such a microsatellite constellation.
“The collaboration with ICEYE in this endeavour is helping us move distinct steps closer to our goals as we explore the potential in the New Space industry,” said ESA’s Director of Earth Observation, Josef Aschbacher.
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Centered in this ICEYE-X1 image from February 2018, ESTEC, European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, Netherlands.
By empowering ESA with ICEYE data, the constellation is helping to shape the future of observing our planet from space. Data collected by ICEYE benefits both researchers and a wide range of commercial industries. Challenging issues such as natural disaster response and climate change research, oil spill and illegal fishing detection all require repeated and timely imaging, regardless of the weather conditions or time of day. This shared effort to gain vast SAR imaging capabilities from new technological developments impacts the whole Earth observation industry and its end users.
“ICEYE’s successful first SAR mission, ICEYE-X1, and the forward-looking response to New Space from ESA have given rise to an extraordinary opportunity to push forward together,” said Rafal Modrzewski, CEO and co-founder of ICEYE.
ICEYE recently announced collaborations with two other European entities, Kongsberg Satellite Service (KSAT) and Aker Arctic, to collect and provide SAR data for maritime and ice monitoring. ICEYE remains on track to launch its next two SAR-enabled satellites, ICEYE-X2 and ICEYE-X3, later this year.
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About European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. ESA is an international organisation with 22 Member States. By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, it can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country. Read more at: https://www.esa.int/
About ICEYE
ICEYE aims to provide democratized access to reliable earth observation data through developing efficient SAR sensors and microsatellites, enabling everyone to make better decisions. Through an imaging service available anywhere around the globe, anytime, and with response times measured in just few hours, ICEYE helps clients resolve challenges in segments such as maritime, disaster management and security and intelligence. ICEYE is the first organization in the world to successfully launch SAR microsatellites. For more information, please visit: www.iceye.com
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"In this preliminary flood analysis exercise image, ICEYE has combined and processed ESA's Sentinel-1 satellite data with ICEYE-X1 satellite data to visualize potential change detection capabilities. The image features Seine river and Orly, Paris airport at the start of the year 2018."
"Centered in this ICEYE-X1 image from February 2018, ESTEC, European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, Netherlands"
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