Darren Muff

SAR Satellite Physicist/Coder working at (but not speaking for) @ICEYEFi. Never could get the hang of social boundaries or Tuesdays !

[Juuso Liekkilä @JuusoLiekkila]

Iceyen ensimmäinen satelliitti on palaamassa ilmakehään seuraavan parin vuorokauden aikana. X-1 laukaistiin alkuvuonna 2018 ja sen jälkeen yritys on laukaissut parikymmentä uutta satelliittia. X-1 oli käytössä vain noin puoli vuotta, mutta siitä yrityksen menestystarina alkoi.

[Adrian Norris @adriannorris]

@DarrenMuff @ICEYEfi I watched it being launched. It’s fantastic that it has been followed by so many more.

Here it is, ready to go, 14 hours before launch on 11/1/2018:

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

Farewell ICEYE-X1 - you started a revolution down here and proved it was possible to make a fine resolution small SAR satellite. 🫡
Now who won the bet on when this would come down @ICEYEfi ?

[orbitingnow @orbitingnow]

🛰 UPDATE : 43114/2018-004D #ICEYE-X1 orbital decay with predicted reentry within 34 hours https://t.co/TQV8QNuFsJ #satellite #decay #reentry

[ICEYE @iceye_global]

Have a joyful holiday season! ❄️

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

Happy Birthday ICEYE-X2 !
a bit battered and bruised but still taking images 5 years on. @ICEYEfi

https://t.co/quxaEw0t2N

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

Can’t believe how over-enthusiastic I get talking about nerdy stuff - sorry (But gotta admit that satellite+RADAR+earth-observation is pretty cool) 🛰️+📟+🌎=😎

[ICEYE @iceye_global]

What makes ICEYE’s Dwell a revolutionary capability?

It collects images over an unprecedented 25 seconds, packing more critical information about objects and their movements into a single image.

Watch our video with @DarrenMuff & John Cartwright to learn more about the product.

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

@mouthofmorrison Also big Kudos to @umbraspace for saying 16cm resolution (on the ground) rather than embellishing and saying the slant range is 12.5cm. Way more useful. Thanks for leading the way with integrity.

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

Still a bit cringy hearing my own voice …. But the imagery is cool. Thanks for helping me try and explain this @ICEYEfi

[ICEYE @iceye_global]

#NeverMissAThing: In this video, @DarrenMuff delves deeper into ICEYE's Dwell Mode, focusing on its enhanced image quality. He explains how we achieve highly-reduced speckle and shows a wealth of additional insights that might have gone unnoticed without Dwell.

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

@Scottworld Hey. Great have Brimstone back in action. I imagine he is looking a bit old and tired now !

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

I asked the team if they could help me to explain why it makes such an amazing difference when our satellites stare at a location for a really long time. I still find this amazing and it wasn't something that I fully appreciated when we started flying the satellites in odd ways.

[ICEYE @iceye_global]

Our newest imaging product – Dwell – is especially useful for defense and intelligence, enabling analysts to detect and classify aircraft more confidently, thanks to enhanced image quality.

Listen to ICEYE's @DarrenMuff diving into one of the key benefits of the Dwell product.

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

Hyvää juhannusta kaikille

[Juuso Liekkilä @JuusoLiekkila]

A good write-up about how Finland became a relatively strong and succesful spacefaring nation 🛰️🚀🇫🇮 #SuomiAvaruudessa

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Rocket reusability enables increased reliability and launch cadence

[ICEYE @iceye_global]

Separation confirmed! 🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️

All 4 ICEYE SAR satellites successfully separated from the Falcon 9 rocket.

Big congratulations to Team ICEYE & huge thank you to @EXOLAUNCH and @SpaceX!

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

@JuusoLiekkila Koska työskentelen Suomessa rakastan tätä (kauneutensa vuoksi). Ja pelkää sitä (koska se hankaloittaa suomalaisia ​​satelliittejamme. 😬).

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

Checkout our 3 newest children. Hopefully to be launched tonight on Transporter-8. These new kids have a few extra surprises for the SAR community.

[ICEYE @iceye_global]

It takes a great team to achieve great things!

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to making the upcoming Transporter-8 launch possible through hard work and dedication, especially to @EXOLAUNCH, @SpaceX, and of course the global Team ICEYE.

Stay tuned for updates! 🚀

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

Explaining where the term 'fallen off the back of a lorry' came from, to my Finnish colleagues was hilarious......

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

Some of you may remember the Multiple Mirror Telescope - the MMT - in Arizona. which operated from 1979 to 1998 on Mt Hopkins.
It had six 1.8-meter-diameter mirrors. There was always a rumour that they had 'fallen off the back of a lorry' - (1/n)

[Darren Muff @DarrenMuff]

@mouthofmorrison @Jack_B_Reid Yea. I’m up for that. Commercial SAR will have to learn to deal with this anyhow. As we all expand to fill the X-Band ITU allocation of 1.2GHz, we will all have the same centre frequency. So if we don’t cooperate, we could all jam each other.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Close to the speed of light geometry becomes Non-Euclidian!

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

50 years ago the still secret National Reconnaissance Office was using their satellites to photograph the damaged Skylab station in orbit. The resulting image is still classified
https://t.co/dZIFvvIEny