The facility includes an expanded Satellite Operations Center used to control ICEYE’s constellation and larger laboratories for developing and testing technologies for future satellite systems. The next phase will add an environmentally controlled facility for the assembly, integration and testing of complete satellites, allowing design, R&D and production work to be conducted in parallel in Warsaw.
Warsaw serves as ICEYE’s competence center for satellite operations, with teams monitoring spacecraft health and controlling constellation activity. The site is also the company’s main center for bringing new satellites into service, including early mission operations as well as configuration and calibration after they reach orbit.
The local mission planning and customer operations team manages the full imaging cycle, from receiving requirements to securely delivering data to users. Warsaw also hosts development of software tools for mission planning, monitoring and quality control, as well as training for ICEYE system operators and users.
ICEYE also operates one of its main engineering centers in Warsaw, with teams responsible for radar signal processing using FPGA technology, onboard software, electronics, communications and radio systems, propulsion and systems engineering. Components for satellite power systems are also manufactured in Poland, while R&D work is focused on improving current satellites and developing technologies that expand the capabilities of the ICEYE constellation.
“The next stage of Poland’s development will belong to industries where knowledge and technology determine competitive advantage. The space sector is a good example of this,” said Poland’s Minister of Finance and Economy Andrzej Domański.
“It is growing year by year, and this growth can translate into benefits for the entire economy: every investment in technology triggers a chain of further investments in other industries. This value chain and these capabilities must be built in Poland,” Domański said.
“I am pleased that companies such as ICEYE are developing engineering and operational teams in Warsaw. These are investments not for a quarter or a year, but for decades. We want the next stage of Poland’s development to be built on capabilities like these,” he said.
“The team in Warsaw is growing at a pace that required a new headquarters and infrastructure adapted to the scale of our operations. The new center provides the space and infrastructure for the next years of growth,” said Rafał Modrzewski, CEO and co-founder of ICEYE.
“Poland has been one of ICEYE’s foundations from the beginning, and the more we do around the world, the more is happening in Warsaw as well. This is also where we run programs for the Polish military: we delivered MikroSAR to the Polish Armed Forces within a year of signing the agreement, and with the Polish Armaments Group we have just begun work on the concept of a military satellite communications system. I am convinced that even more will happen here in the coming years,” Modrzewski said.
ICEYE’s presence in Poland dates to the early years of the company, with its Polish subsidiary established in 2017 before its first satellite reached orbit. Poland remains one of the company’s core locations, employing more than 150 of ICEYE’s workforce of more than 1,000 people across offices on four continents.
ICEYE has also expanded internationally in recent months, opening offices in Berlin and Munich in Germany, a competence center in Lisbon, Portugal, and new locations in New Delhi, Amsterdam and Seoul. The company said its continued growth in Poland forms part of that broader global expansion.
