At a most critical time in Ukrain’s history, the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation has signed a deal with the ICEYE company, which gives the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine full access to all the systems and full capabilities for one of ICEYE’s satellites already in orbit over the region.
ICEYE will provide access to its constellation of SAR satellites, allowing the Ukrainian Armed Forces to receive radar satellite imagery on critical locations with a high revisit frequency. The satellite will provide the Government of Ukraine with ICEYE’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imaging capabilities.
Serhiy Prytula, founder of the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation, notes, “ICEYE owns the most developed radar satellite imaging technology in the world as of today. This agreement is a significant step in responding to the Government of Ukraine’s urgent request for critical earth observation data and it will greatly benefit our Armed Forces.”
“With this agreement, ICEYE further builds on its efforts to provide objective data and technological support to Ukraine,” says Rafal Modrzewski, CEO of ICEYE. “We firmly believe SAR technology and its capabilities will continue to add significant value to the Government of Ukraine, now enabled by the work of the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation.”
ICEYE delivers proven and reliable Earth Observation solutions and is the only organization in the world to offer the rapid delivery of high-precision SAR satellites and data to its customers. Unlike traditional Earth observation satellites, ICEYE’s small radar imaging satellites can form high-resolution images of areas of the Earth in daylight, at night, and through cloud cover.
The Foundation is grateful to the Ukrainian space technologies leader, founder of EOS DATA Analytics Max Polyakov for all support and expertise granted for the project.
This deal was closed with the fund raised by the People’s Bayraktar project funds June 22-24, 2022 by the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation in cooperation with blogger Ihor Lachenkov. The Baykar company decided to give three Bayraktar TB-2 UAVs for free. This allowed them to use the saved 600 million UAH (17 million USD) to purchase the satellite.