How Satellite Technologies Are Transforming Ukraine: From Warzones to Wheat Fields
A Ukrainian charity crowdfunded access to an ICEYE SAR satellite in August 2022, enabling round-the-clock imaging of the war. Commercial satellites tracked a 40-mile Russian convoy near Kyiv and mapped the Nova Kakhovka dam flooding in June 2023. By 2024, Starlink provided reliable frontline communications. Ukraine established a Space Policy Directorate in early 2025 to develop secure national satellite systems.
