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Space

Commercial SAR Data Aided in Sinking of Russian Ships in Crimea, Ukraine Says

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, September 28th, 2023

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Commercial SAR Data Aided in Sinking of Russian Ships in Crimea, Ukraine Says

Pictured is testing of an ICEYE synthetic aperture radar satellite in an anechoic chamber (ICEYE Photo)

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…

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