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By Anne Kauranen
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland-based outer relation ICEYE is to commencement providing imaging information to the Situation Centre astatine NATO office successful Brussels, the institution said connected Friday.
Privately owned ICEYE has grown rapidly successful caller years and presently has a fleet of 48 Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites successful orbit to observe the Earth, providing adjacent real-time imaging. Its clients see Ukraine and different militaries.
Its outer constellation works by bouncing a radar beam disconnected the aboveground of the Earth from astir 550 kilometres successful abstraction to physique a representation of what is happening connected the crushed from the pulses, careless of upwind conditions oregon daylight, the institution said.
ICEYE's announcement connected NATO practice comes astatine a clip erstwhile Europe is scrambling to boost its autonomy successful space-based monitoring and communications, with the European Commission pushing guardant delayed plans for a 10.6 cardinal euro ($11.13 billion) unafraid European outer constellation.
Officials accidental accelerated enlargement of Elon Musk's Starlink outer constellation spurred efforts to enactment up Europe's alleged "digital sovereignty".
While ICEYE's satellites supply Earth observation, Starlink satellites present planetary net sum and alteration communications.
"We are arrogant of the accidental to cooperate and enactment NATO users and decision-makers with information from the world's largest SAR outer constellation, owned and operated by ICEYE," ICEYE's Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder Pekka Laurila said successful a statement.
"What the satellite has learned by observing the struggle successful Ukraine is that aboriginal information of nations volition beryllium massively babelike connected outer constellations," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski told Reuters earlier.
(Reporting by Anne Kauranen successful Helsinki; Editing by Jan Harvey)
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