A well-known Ukrainian TV presenter helped close the deal – What he did
A popular Ukrainian TV presenter has taken a fundraising initiative to bolster his country’s armed forces against Russian invaders and announced that he has secured the rights to use a Finnish satellite.
TV star Sergi Pritula and Finnish satellite manufacturer ICEYE confirmed the deal today.
According to the Finnish company, the contract enables the Ukrainian armed forces to receive satellite images of strategically important locations. Provided, as ICEYE reports, is the ability to capture high-resolution images even at night or in dense cloud cover.
“I don’t know of any other cases in history when citizens, young and old, joined forces and got a satellite for their state,” Pritula said in a video posted on YouTube.
Serhi Pritula — whose foundation has undertaken several fundraising initiatives to bolster his country’s armed forces in the fight against Russian invaders — said the money for the satellite was secured in June through a crowdfunding campaign. “People’s Bayraktar” which sought to purchase three Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles from the Turkish company Baykar.
After the publicity received by this initiative, Baykar donated three drones of this type to Ukraine.
As such, Pritula said he was able to leverage the money raised — about $55 million, he said — to gain access to the ICEYE satellite.
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