Aerospace
SATIM Wins Polish Defence Contract for MikroSAR Radar Analysis
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SATIM announced on November 12, 2026, that it had signed a contract with Poland’s Ministry of National Defence to supply software for automated analysis of satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. The system will support Poland’s MikroSAR Earth-observation program, helping military analysts turn radar images into intelligence.
The procurement was conducted by the 2nd Regional Logistics Base for ARGUS, Poland’s Geospatial Reconnaissance and Satellite Services Agency. The software in scope automatically detects and classifies hundreds of objects across vessels, aircraft and vehicles in SAR imagery. Its outputs include machine-readable results, automated alerts and reports, supporting sovereign programs that use national and commercial satellite constellations capable of producing hundreds of images a day.
SAR satellites can collect imagery in darkness and through cloud cover, but interpreting the images can be challenging and time-consuming. Automation is intended to help analysts process that data and build the situational awareness needed to act.
“Access to SAR imagery is only the first step. The value comes from extracting useful intelligence quickly, consistently and at scale,” said SATIM CEO Jacek Strzelczyk.
Software for an Operational Constellation
The analysis contract follows the delivery of the satellite system it will support. ICEYE handed over MikroSAR to the Polish Armed Forces on May 15, 2026, less than 12 months after the satellite-system contract was signed. That separate agreement, signed in May 2025, was valued at approximately 200 million euros.
ICEYE built and launched four SAR satellites. The baseline three-satellite scope was completed within 10 months of contract signing, and the first option was activated one month later. Polish military operators run the constellation independently through ARGUS. The system is called POLSARIS, for Polish SAR Intelligence System.
ICEYE says the system can acquire imagery anywhere in the world, day or night and in any weather, with resolution as fine as 25 centimeters. Its operating modes range from wide-area surveillance, including borders and maritime zones, to high-precision imaging of specific areas of interest.
Deployment and Sovereign Analysis
Beyond the contract’s stated outputs, SATIM says its broader OREC platform is sensor-agnostic and compatible with satellite providers including ICEYE, Umbra, Capella and Synspective, as well as UAV-based SAR systems, with detection accuracy of up to 95% across more than 300 object classes. Deployment options span cloud, on-premise, tactical-edge and fully air-gapped environments, with integration into existing command-and-control systems. OREC-Intelligence adds continuous monitoring of user-defined areas of interest, near-real-time alerts and time-series analysis.
For classified work, SATIM says its OREC-Sovereign product allows customers to train models on their own imagery inside their infrastructure, without sending imagery, labels or model weights to SATIM or third parties. Offline update packages supply new object classes, additional data-provider integrations and accuracy improvements to air-gapped deployments.
The procurement connects an operational Polish satellite constellation with the analytical layer needed to exploit its output. Automated classification, alerting and reporting are the mechanisms for converting a growing supply of national and commercial radar imagery into decision-ready information. The central operational test is whether that processing keeps pace with collection.
