The Ukrainian military’ is using commercial satellite imagery that goes directly to a soldier to guide real-time battle decisions….The same satellites used to monitor illegal fishing and update Google Maps have found a new and deadly application. The technology is a trans-Atlantic collaboration between Colorado-based Vantor, Dutch geospatial intelligence company Bravo1Alpha, U.S.-based Persistent Systems and Ukrainian defense firm Burevii. Vantor’s push into defense helped it reach $900 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025… Vantor’s images go directly from the satellite to the soldier’s tablet, phone or laptop in as little as 15 minutes, bypassing a centralized review in Kyiv that has tended to slow down the flow of intelligence to the front line by hours or days

Excerpt from Heather Somerville, Real-Time Satellite Intelligence Is Making Ukraine’s Drone Strikes Deadlier Than Ever, June 4, 2026