00:00Zwei junge Genies aus Polen und Finnland haben das beste Satellitensystem der Welt gebaut.
00:07Aus 600 Kilometern Höhe beobachten Radaraugen durch dichte Wolkendecken und mitten in der Nacht wirklich alles.
00:15Ölkatastrophen, Waldbrände, Überschwemmungen, auch Militärgerät und verdächtige Schiffsbewegungen.
00:21Weltmeister der Erdbeobachtung. Made in Europe.
00:30Ein finnischer Sumpf in einem Außenbezirk von Helsinki. Hier liegt die Zentrale von IceEye.
00:37Das Start-up produziert Schwärme aus Minisatelliten und ist Weltmarktführer.
00:43Radartechniker Andrea aus Italien zeigt seinem türkischen Kollegen Burak und der Laborantin Kriti aus Nepal den Testraum.
00:50Der neue Satellit ist streng geheim, Filmen verboten.
01:00Wow, great stuff! This looks amazing!
01:04It's a radar satellite?
01:05A radar?
01:06So it looks through the clouds during the night?
01:09Precisely.
01:10But this satellite is much smaller than what's traditionally been available.
01:15This is about 200 kilos.
01:17Being small, it still has high performance, less in cost.
01:23And that means you can have a fleet of them.
01:26You can have four, five, ten, rather than just one.
01:29So it's not just one satellite, but it's a constellation of satellites.
01:33Exactly.
01:33And that's what IceEye has.
01:35We have the world's largest constellation of these satellites.
01:38What they can see down there on Earth.
01:41So the highest resolution that we currently offer is 25 centimeter.
01:45So they are up there 600 kilometers and they can see objects just this size.
01:51Yeah, exactly.
01:52We are going to move that to 16 centimeter and it's going to keep going even further.
01:56We can deliver images within two or three hours and we're going to push that down to sub-10 minutes.
02:02What's the number actually of satellites you have up there right now?
02:06We've launched 70 today.
02:09We are currently producing 25 per year and we'll be moving to 50 per year.
02:16One satellite each week.
02:18That's amazing.
02:18Exactly.
02:31IceEye wurde 2014 gegründet.
02:34Startkapital gab es von der Europäischen Union.
02:37Das Unternehmen hat Ableger in Polen, Spanien, Deutschland und Griechenland und beschäftigt 1000 Menschen aus 70 Ländern.
02:43Im vergangenen Jahr machte IceEye einen Umsatz von 250 Millionen Euro.
02:49Pekka Laudela ist einer der Gründer.
02:51Hi, Pekka.
02:53Nice to meet you.
02:54Good to meet you.
02:54Come on in.
02:55Yeah, great.
02:56I'm curious to learn about your experience.
02:58Sure.
02:59How did it start once upon a time?
03:03Well, we were in this university here, in Aalto University.
03:07The story of IceEye, of course, is in the very extreme that we did set out to do this imaging
03:14radar sensor in microsatellite scale,
03:16which had never been done in the world, which, again, for us being a couple of 24-year-old students,
03:25was an ambitious stretch.
03:26Made in Europe, can we still compete on a global level?
03:31Deep tech, research-based companies, there's a lot that Europe has a very, very strong background there.
03:38I think it's always been a little bit of a challenge to grow those companies as fast and as aggressively
03:45as you might in the U.S. or you might in China.
03:49When it comes to the European Union, what is your direct advice to Brussels?
03:53Go for a bold plan rather now than in 10 years.
03:57Europe actually does have resources, but being able to put them in specific programs with the ambition that you actually
04:05try to be the world's best.
04:09Gleich um die Ecke liegt Aalto, die beste Universität Finnlands.
04:1314.000 junge Menschen aus aller Welt studieren hier.
04:17Mit seinem Nanosatellitenprogramm hat Professor Jan Prax weltweit für Schlagzeilen gesorgt.
04:23Nice to meet you.
04:24Glad to meet you. So let's go to that.
04:26Yeah, I'm curious to learn. Looking forward for it.
04:29Our goal was to build the first satellite for the nation.
04:33And this really great goal attracted exceptional students.
04:38We were building successfully the first satellite for Finland.
04:41And these very successful and talented students were going much further and creating many other success stories later on.
04:49And we are still successfully spinning out companies on technology and space technology.
04:55Our latest startup company started just a few weeks ago.
04:59We have very long living funding programs for the very beginning of the innovation chain.
05:07170 Firmen logieren auf dem Campus. Aus Forschern werden Jungunternehmer.
05:1230 Milliarden Euro, das ist der Wert der von Aalto-Studenten gegründeten Unternehmen.
05:1715.000 Arbeitsplätze wurden so geschaffen. Made by Aalto.
05:21Doktorand Marius aus Deutschland bewirbt sich gerade bei IceEye.
05:26What we are doing at Aalto is we are building the satellite from scratch.
05:30And then we fly them into space.
05:32As a student or as a worker here, you are experiencing the real stuff.
05:39And of course this makes a different attitude towards building a company, building a startup or actually knowing what you
05:46are doing, right?
05:48Egal ob Kapital gebraucht wird für Studenten-Start-Ups oder Kontakte in die Geschäftswelt,
05:53der Vizepräsident von Aalto hat direkte Telefonnummern von Top-Managern in ganz Europa.
06:00European Universities are around. What they can learn from you? What can they learn from Finland?
06:06We are coaching our teams in the way that they get feedback from customers, stakeholders.
06:15So we start from day one that we get customers in the boat in the very first minute.
06:19One very important thing is the culture and the trust. And the third factor is the low hierarchy.
06:28Astrophysikerin Shae Strong leitet die Datenauswertung bei IceEye.
06:32Die Superbilder aus dem All helfen bei der militärischen Fernaufklärung, aber auch beim Katastrophenmanagement.
06:38Wo brennt es? Welche Gebiete wurden überschwemmt? Wo wird der Urwald abgeholzt? IceEye hat den Überblick.
06:57You have this amazing, beautiful access to all this information quite frequently.
07:02So we can really impact people when it comes to disaster recovery or border security.
07:12Is the work that we're doing at IceEye useful for humanity? And I would say yes.
07:17We're not generating, you know, pictures or information or data just for consumer goods, for instance.
07:26But we are actually capturing what is happening on Earth.
07:29The drive for me is devoting my time in a way that's hopefully making the world ultimately a better place
07:37through data.
07:37So with this information, we can make better decisions for Europe as we navigate through this changing environment, this changing
07:47world.
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