People's Satellite
Ukrainian satellite
The People's Satellite (Ukrainian: Народний супутник, romanized: Narodnyy suputnyk) is an ICEYE satellite acquired by the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was called "people's" because it was purchased entirely with money donated by Ukrainians and people from other sovereign countries.
Fundraising campaign
The deal was implemented after a series of fundraising projects to purchase the People's Bayraktar in June 2022. The Serhiy Prytula Foundation and blogger Ihor Lachenkov launched the initiative to raise funds to buy three Baykar Bayraktar TB2 drones. Ukrainians collected ₴600 million in a matter of days. The Turkish company Baykar provided three Bayraktar TB2 drones free of charge.
With the money not needed for its original purpose, the Foundation considered how to spend it most effectively for other needs of the Ukrainian army. The decision to purchase the satellite was made after negotiations with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine, and the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukrainian space entrepreneur Max Polyakov, founder of EOS Data Analytics, was involved in negotiations due to his expertise in the satellite market.
In March 2022, at the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Polyakov asked Earth Observation firms and space agencies that collect satellite imagery to share recent and real-time high-to-medium resolution optical and radar satellite imagery with Ukraine.
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