ICEYE

Operates one of the largest synthetic-aperture radar satellite constellations, imaging through cloud and darkness.

Satellite & remote sensingEspoo, FinlandFounded 2014

ICEYE operates the world's largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation, with 62 satellites launched as of December 2025. SAR enables imaging through cloud cover and darkness, with one-metre accuracy used for natural-disaster monitoring, maritime, defence, and forest-related applications. The company was founded as a spin-off from Aalto University's radio technology department by Rafał Modrzewski and Pekka Laurila.

What Boreal Tech Brief reported

  1. #05918 Aug 2026 · Funding

    Europe's new growth fund picks a radar satellite company first

    The European Commission built a fund to stop large European companies raising their late-stage money abroad, handed EQT the job of running it, and pointed it at 5 billion euros. Its first cheque goes into a round ICEYE closed back in June. The Finnish company flies radar satellites that see through cloud and smoke, which is what puts it in a forestry newsletter: fire monitoring, extended to Canada in July, and the deforestation service from #041.

  2. #04121 Apr 2026 · Launch

    ICEYE Launches SAR-Powered Deforestation Monitoring Across Its 62-Satellite Constellation

    Finnish SAR operator ICEYE launched a deforestation monitoring service for governments and conservation NGOs, extending its 62-satellite constellation into tropical forest enforcement. SAR penetrates cloud and smoke, solving the blind spot where optical satellites fail in the Amazon and Congo Basin. The Jane Goodall Institute is an early partner, tracking chimpanzee habitats. In beta in select regions now, with a wider Q2 2026 rollout.