The ceremonial signing of the contract for the supply of the Satellite Earth Observation System in the Mikrosar program is scheduled for Wednesday at 9 at the Warsaw Military Center for Citizenship Education. The signing of the contract will be attended by, among others: Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Ministry of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and deputy heads of the ministry Paweł Bejda and Cezary Tomczyk.
Under the agreement, a consortium consisting of the Polish-Finnish company ICEYE and ZAł No. 1 It will provide the army with new reconnaissance skills based on data provided by the satellite specially placed in orbit. It is about reconnaissance satellites using the so -called Radar with a synthetic aperture (SAR).
These types of radars collect data that allows the creation of high separation of monochrome images of the Earth. In contrast to satellites using imaging diagnosis – i.e. taking high resolution of photos – radar systems can also provide useful data, e.g. with high clouds.
According to the Ministry of Defense, all satellites provided for in the contract will be placed in the Heliosynchronous SSO orbit, which, as ensured, allows convenient acquisition of image data. The satellite moving around the Heliosynchronous orbit flies over a given point on Earth each time at the same time according to sunny time. This makes it easier to observe objects on Earth, because in every image provided by the satellite sun rays fall on the observed object at the same angle.
The Ministry of National Defense does not inform how many satellites the contract covers, but – as it was assured in the announcement – “In conjunction with the systems previously obtained by the Polish Armed Forces, a low inspection interval will provide“.
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The contract scheduled for Wednesday is not the first in this area concluded by the Ministry of National Defense. At the end of 2022, a contract was signed for a delivery for the Polish Army of two observation satellites and receiving stations from Airbus Defense and Space.
