The Polish army has received a new tool of technological control: it can now independently conduct satellite surveillance of Russian territory without relying on allied assistance. ICEYE Polska President Witold Witkowicz said this in an interview with Interia.

According to Witkowicz, the company has handed Poland’s armed forces their first operational satellite reconnaissance system, which the Polish military controls sovereignly and independently.

The deployment of the constellation took less than a year. The first satellite was launched into orbit in November 2025, and by May 2026 the Polish army already had four satellites at its disposal. The head of ICEYE Polska noted that the system makes it possible to obtain fresh intelligence data almost in real time.

Witkowicz stressed that having Poland’s own up-to-date data, which no one can hide, block or take away from it, changes the very organization of intelligence work and certain operations.

The company demonstrated the system’s capabilities on May 6 by publishing images of the Northern Fleet base in the port of Gadzhievo. The high-resolution images show Russian facilities, including air defense elements.

According to Witkowicz, modern satellite constellations sharply reduce the delay between imaging and receiving information. While in the past a satellite image could take up to a week to arrive, now it is a matter of several hours, and in some cases just minutes.

The head of ICEYE Polska also noted that Poland’s own orbital constellation increases the resilience of its intelligence capabilities. Disabling dozens of satellites distributed across orbit is much harder than neutralizing a single satellite, while modern systems can independently detect jamming attempts.