ESPOO, Finland, November 20, 2017 (ICEYE PR) – ICEYE, the leader in synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) technology, today announced an agreement with the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) to purchase airborne earth observation (EO) data support services from ICEYE U.S. “Having just opened our U.S. subsidiary, ICEYE U.S. is on a fast-track in providing services that will help the public sector,” said Mike Lyons, CEO of ICEYE U.S. “DIUx is tackling […]

Virgin Orbit has received a Department of Defense (DOD) launch contract for its LauncherOne booster, the company announced this week. “Their Space Test Program will fly some technology development payloads on our rocket as early as January 2019,” the company announced on Twitter. LauncherOne will be air-launched from a modified Boeing 747 airliner. The first flight test is expected to occur in 2018. The contract, which came through the VOX […]