First Satellite Launched to Monitor Greenland and the Arctic

Published at: Jun 23 2025 - 15:16 / Updated at: Jun 23 2025 - 15:16

For the first time, a satellite has been launched into orbit to monitor Greenland and the Arctic.

This was reported by Sermitsiaq.

The Bifrost satellite was launched on Sunday evening with a SpaceX rocket and comes from Space Inventor, which started the project seven years ago. Since then, Terma, Gatehouse SatCom, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and Sweden's Unibap Space Solutions have joined the project.

Bifrost will monitor the Danish Arctic waters around Greenland using sensors and artificial intelligence that can detect radar signals from ships in the area.

Karl Kaas, CEO of Space Inventor, hopes that Bifrost can be a precursor to a larger fleet of satellites. Bifrost can only monitor the Arctic for ten minutes at a time before moving on at around 300,000 kilometers per hour. To ensure 24-hour monitoring of the area, around 20 more satellites are needed, he explains to the newspaper.