Satellite intelligence
Intelligence collected from orbit: imagery and sensing tasked on national questions.
Satellite intelligence is the collection and exploitation of information from orbit, drawing on electro-optical and radar imagery and wide-area maritime sensing, to answer national questions. It can be procured as a data service, as dedicated tasking on another operator's spacecraft, or as a sovereign programme with a national ground segment. Each step up the ladder increases national control over both the questions asked and the answers received.
In practice
Satellite intelligence can be procured at several levels, and Unstrat helps a national buyer choose the step that matches their ambition: a data service, dedicated tasking on another operator's spacecraft, or a sovereign programme with a national ground segment. Each step up increases national control over both the questions asked and the answers received. The advantage is a capability that grows with the nation: buyers can start where they are and build toward genuine ownership of orbital collection and exploitation. Moving up the ladder protects sensitive intelligence and the mission by bringing tasking and the resulting take under national custody rather than a foreign operator's. As the accountable single channel, Unstrat structures the progression and stands behind each stage. Localisation arrangements are scoped per programme, subject to export controls and end-use approvals.