# Pekka Laurila **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** engineer and space-technology entrepreneur ## Definition **Pekka Laurila** is a engineer and space-technology entrepreneur. In the ICE graph, co-founded ICEYE rather than participating in Dartmouth ICE. ## Projects, contributions, and institutional alignments co-founded ICEYE and helped move compact SAR from university research toward operational small-satellite missions and commercial Earth-observation products. ## Relationships - **ICE or disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE]] and [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]]. - **wider alignments:** [[wiki/ICEYE|ICEYE]], Aalto University, SAR engineering, and commercial space. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.iceye.com/company/history) - [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/)