SSC and ICEYE signed LOI to strengthen Nordic and NATO space-based capabilities
Swedish Space Corporation SSC and ICEYE have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to explore expanded collaboration in key space and defense-related areas. Signed at the NATO Arctic Space Forum, the LOI targets potential SSC – ICEYE synergies across mission development, satellite operations and launch capabilities.
SSC, a leading global provider of advanced space services, and ICEYE, the global leader in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), announced they have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) on 20 November 2025. This outlines a plan to leverage their complementary strengths, aiming to enhance sovereign space capabilities for Nordic and NATO security.
The LOI, signed at the NATO Arctic Space Forum the previous week in Helsinki, reflects the growing strategic cooperation between Sweden and Finland and aims to explore expanded collaboration in key space and defense-related areas. It leverages the complementary strengths of both companies to support future mission development, satellite operations, and launch capabilities.
The partnership will explore synergies between SSC’s extensive global ground station network, mission operations expertise, and future orbital launch services, and ICEYE’s world-leading sovereign space-based ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) offering.
Following high-level discussions at the NATO Arctic Space Forum among senior Nordic and NATO leaders on the need for increased cooperation between allied governments and industry, the LOI between SSC and ICEYE represents a tangible step toward rapidly strengthening space-based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities for the Arctic and NATO’s North-Eastern Flank.
Charlotta Sund, President and CEO at SSC, said: “The LOI between SSC and ICEYE aims to develop cooperation based on our complementary strengths, and is in line with and supports an increasing defense cooperation also in the space domain between Sweden and Finland.”
Pekka Laurila, CSO and Co-founder of ICEYE, said: “Through this LOI, we are evaluating how to combine ICEYE’s SAR offering and SSC’s global ground network and future access to orbit. The intent is to explore concepts that strengthen Nordic collaboration for security and resilience and enable dependable ISR for NATO and the Nordics.”
Source: SSC
