
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's intelligence directorate said last week that imagery from a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite built by Finland-based ICEYE helped sink the Russian amphibious assault ship Minsk and the Russian submarine Rostov-on-Don in the Crimea's Sevastopol Bay on Sept. 13. The directorate has deemed the SAR bird the "People's Satellite"--"narodni suputnik," as Ukraine's Serhiy Prytula Charitable Foundation raised $16 million in three days through crowdsourcing to buy imagery from ICEYE on Aug. 18 last year. The…