Iceye imagery of the NATO Headquarters in Brussels. Photo: Iceye

Iceye has a new satellite imagery tasking product geared toward short notice for critical operations, calling it Tactical Access. It is a subscription tasking product for customers that need tight timelines on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tasking. 

Announced Oct. 30, Iceye described it as a change from the “first-in-first-out” typical tasking model, saying that it doesn’t account for breaking intelligence needs or time-sensitive imaging targets. 

Iceye is allowing customers to purchase a dedicated ground station for direct downlink of imagery data, so that customers can keep custody of the image for national security requirements. It also offers its standard secure cloud-based image delivery. 

“Tactical Access serves the demanding needs of our imagery power users around the globe by breaking the paradigm of the traditional imagery planning and delivery model. We have high-volume national security customers requiring significant planning flexibility and very short tasking planning-to-delivery timelines. Tactical Access is the industry’s best product for these needs,” commented John Cartwright, Iceye senior vice president of Data Product.