Usually, observation planes approaching a foreign airspace experience a strong reaction, often in the form of an interception and an official complaint from the diplomatic sphere. This month, however, several flights…
High-resolution radar satellite images are uniquely helpful for both distinguishing small objects, and for accurately classifying larger objects such as vessels. HELSINKI - ICEYE, a leader in small satellite synthetic-aperture…
Press Release by Michelle Wiese Bockmann The use of synthetic aperture radar technology means ships can be detected even if they turn off Automatic Identification System transponders. Satellites can see…
Synspective, a Japanese startup which provides satellite data solutions using small-sized SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellites, has accumulated $100 million USD in funding since its foundation in February 2018. Raising that…
Vision-1 was launched in September 2018 together with NovaSAR, this opens significant opportunities for applications combining optical and radar satellite imagery. Along with Vision-1, Airbus offers commercial access to the largest…
IMSAR LLC and Optisys, LLC, collaborated to create a low-Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) radar designed specifically for use on High Altitude, Long Endurance (HALE) platforms. The high-altitude radar system…
VIA SATELLITE: The lack of Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite orders has been a major trend in the industry over the last couple of years. Are we now at a stage…
Venus has often been called Earth’s sister planet, mainly because the two are roughly the same size. And there the similarity ends. One significant difference is that Venus is covered…
Press Release 05 July 2019 ICEYE Reports Successful July 2019 Launch of Two SAR Satellites Earth observation company continues to lead the way for radar imaging with small SAR satellites.…
Tokyo also planned to develop an RF-15 reconnaissance jet with surface-scanning synthetic aperture radars, but this program was canceled in 2010. The first F-15J flew in 1980, and the aircraft…