The joint venture with ICEYE will focus initially on manufacturing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites before expanding to other space capabilities.
"We are going to have mines on our territory, but they will either be Russian ... or our own, where we will know where they are," said Dovilė Šakalienė.
The service is exploring a range of leads for increasing launch access — including international partnerships and newer modalities like sea-based launch.
A constellation of interceptors meant to counter low- and high-end threats would require a much more robust architecture than past estimates have assumed.