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These two small satellites, known as “BRO-2” and “BRO-3” or “Prize-Recon-Orbiter”, which are no bigger than a shoebox, are owned by Ancien Labs, based in Rennes, in western France, and they will back you up. The BRO-1 satellite has been in orbit at an altitude of 550 km since August 2019.
And the mission of the three satellites is to collect the signatures of the ships by capturing the electromagnetic waves that are emitted by the ships vertically, according to a technology that allows the military and civil authorities to improve the safety of the seas and address the marine crimes.
The company’s “Ancien Labs” technology, which the company keeps secret, allows it to detect a craft from space with an accuracy of between one and five kilometers.
Clement Gallic, 37, who founded the company in 2015 with his brother Jonathan (40 years old), explains: “The purpose of our data is not to transmit it as is, but rather it is intended to be included in a Maritime Surveillance Report.” .
The two brothers draw a map on a screen, listing the data that BRO-1 recorded a few days earlier. And along the coast of Peru, ten red circles indicate the presence of boats that have crossed the limits of the fishing area.
“This is what we captured. We see that there are about ten infiltrations in the area,” Clement Gallic, an intelligence engineer specializing in intelligence, told AFP. “As by chance, all these ships interrupted the automatic identification system.”
The two new small satellites, whose name comes from the French region of Brutané and whose name in the local language is “Prize”, were recently launched from the platform of the company “Rocket Lab”, which specializes in launching small rockets , on the Maheya Peninsula in New Zealand.
“Ancien Labs” plans to deploy a “constellation” of 20 to 25 of these satellites by 2024, capable of collecting a daily amount of data sufficient to “map the routes of ships very precisely.”
