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How do I pronounce that first one? Icy Eye? Ice Ye? I See?

Regardless, I'm glad to see European alternatives to the usual US based suspects, but it's still falling into the same pattern of corporate military providers. It's not really Sovereign intelligence, it's just private intelligence based in Europe.

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The weapons militaries use are also manufactured by corporations.

The question to ask is whether there's a hand-off; who operates the corporation operates the final system. It's completely plausible this is meant to be a product that is sold, not a service that is subscribed to.

https://www.iceye.com/newsroom/press-releases/iceye-and-noki... specifically says "give nations ownership and control of the satellites"

"Ice eye" - it started as project to see if SAR could be used to monitor ice features in the artic

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