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How Iceye Satellites Track Russian Vessels, Illegal Shipping in the Arctic
On a dark, clouded night, a Russian ballistic missile submarine departs a naval base in the Arctic. A small vessel navigates the Mediterranean Sea at 15 miles per hour. A tanker floats beside another to illegally receive a cargo of sanctioned oil.
The ocean is a big place covered by clouds and any of these activities are easy to miss. Iceye, a Finland-based Earth Observation firm, has tracked those three use cases from orbit, according to application studies provided to Via Satellite. Its constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, the largest in the world, is designed to monitor maritime…[continued]
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