Ukraine as a Demand Shock
How has the war in Ukraine changed the Earth observation market, and what did the March 2025 access suspension teach governments?
Chapter summary
Ukraine is the first war fought with large-scale commercial satellite support.
Key takeaways
- 1
From 2022 commercial imagery and SAR were used to track troop movements, document damage and support targeting; Ukraine bought its own SAR satellite capacity from ICEYE through crowdfunding and government contracts.
- 2
Commercial imagery became public evidence through the media and open-source investigators.
- 3
Then, around 7 March 2025, during a US pause in intelligence sharing, Maxar suspended Ukrainian users' accounts on the US government's GEGD imagery service, restoring them on 12 March after the pause ended.
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