Poland completes four-satellite MikroGlob military constellation
Creotech Instruments · Poland's Armament Agency
Creotech's final three MikroGlob satellites launched on Transporter-18, completing Poland's four-satellite military EO fleet.
what happened
Creotech Instruments' final three MikroGlob satellites (Mikroglob-2, -3 and -4) launched aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare on October 1, completing a four-satellite optical reconnaissance constellation for the Polish military under a 556.7 million zloty December 2024 contract with Poland's Armament Agency, per Space24.pl. Creotech confirmed two-way communication and telemetry with all three new satellites on October 2, per its stock-exchange disclosure reported by Parkiet.com. The first MikroGlob satellite launched July 7 on Transporter-17.
why it matters
The win is a reference case for Creotech's HyperSat smallsat platform delivering a four-satellite optical constellation on a fixed government contract, a model other European governments buying sovereign reconnaissance capacity outside ESA's IRIS2 program may look to. It adds a government-owned optical EO source for commercial EO resellers and analysts to track, alongside Poland's parallel MikroSAR program procuring six ICEYE-built radar satellites.
for who
European government EO buyers; smallsat platform vendors
signal-to-noise
quick facts
- Companies
- Creotech Instruments, Poland's Armament Agency
- Category
- constellation
- Impact
- notable
- SNR
- 4 / 5
- Event date
- 2026-10-01
- Published
- 2026-10-02 17:39 UTC