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BlackSky is a space-based intelligence company that delivers real-time imagery with global rapid revisit, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events. Government agencies and businesses around the globe trust BlackSky to help them see, understand and anticipate change for a decisive strategic advantage to the tactical edge.
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BlackSky Wins NGA Luno A Delivery Order for AI-Enabled Change Detection
HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) won another National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Luno A delivery order for automated general change detection. This foundational space-based analytics award leverages BlackSky’s proprietary computer vision and other AI capabilities to identify areas of change caused by human activity.
“This Luno A award underscores the maturity and quality of BlackSky’s in-house AI capabilities in meeting the NGA’s stringent requirements for commercial space-based analytics services,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “BlackSky's ability to automatically detect anomalies and significant events at machine speed and global scale play a critical role in shaping important strategic national security, policy decisions or military operations.”
Under this order, BlackSky will use its very high-resolution Gen-3 and high-cadence Gen-2 imagery plus other commercial sources of data to identify areas of the Earth that have experienced change caused by human activity. BlackSky’s automated detection algorithms will monitor anomalies in real-time and report changes in natural resources, climate, infrastructure development and economic and military activity.
"The Luno A program aligns well with BlackSky’s strengths as a software-first company as we develop and deploy novel proprietary AI solutions and techniques that efficiently manage large volumes of data, generate insights and develop predictive analytics,” said O’Toole. “In addition to monitoring for known, well-documented phenomena, BlackSky is uniquely suited to discover uncharted patterns of interest over newly mapped areas of the Earth.”
BlackSky monitors over more than 30 million square kilometers of the Earth’s surface for the NGA. In October, NGA selected BlackSky for the five-year, up to $290 million Luno A multi-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to monitor global economic and environmental activity and military capability using high-cadence, rapid revisit satellite imagery and AI-driven change-detection analytics.
“This Luno A award underscores the maturity and quality of BlackSky’s in-house AI capabilities in meeting the NGA’s stringent requirements for commercial space-based analytics services,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “BlackSky's ability to automatically detect anomalies and significant events at machine speed and global scale play a critical role in shaping important strategic national security, policy decisions or military operations.”
Under this order, BlackSky will use its very high-resolution Gen-3 and high-cadence Gen-2 imagery plus other commercial sources of data to identify areas of the Earth that have experienced change caused by human activity. BlackSky’s automated detection algorithms will monitor anomalies in real-time and report changes in natural resources, climate, infrastructure development and economic and military activity.
"The Luno A program aligns well with BlackSky’s strengths as a software-first company as we develop and deploy novel proprietary AI solutions and techniques that efficiently manage large volumes of data, generate insights and develop predictive analytics,” said O’Toole. “In addition to monitoring for known, well-documented phenomena, BlackSky is uniquely suited to discover uncharted patterns of interest over newly mapped areas of the Earth.”
BlackSky monitors over more than 30 million square kilometers of the Earth’s surface for the NGA. In October, NGA selected BlackSky for the five-year, up to $290 million Luno A multi-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to monitor global economic and environmental activity and military capability using high-cadence, rapid revisit satellite imagery and AI-driven change-detection analytics.
29 Oct 2025
BlackSky Secures Two-Year Gen-3 Early Access Agreement with New Gen-2 On-Demand Customer
HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) secured a two-year Gen-3 early access agreement with a new international customer that initiated a Gen-2 On-Demand contract in January. The rapid expansion commitment illustrates the tremendous operational value and growing demand for combined Gen-3 very high-resolution imagery and Gen-2 low-latency, high-cadence dynamic monitoring services.
"BlackSky continues to be recognized as a trusted mission partner in helping our global customers quickly scale their advanced national space capabilities and become among the first to acquire early access to Gen-3,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “Existing On-Demand customers are quickly realizing how the immediate availability and powerful, comprehensive tip-and-cue utility between our Gen-3 and Gen-2 systems delivers a critical real-time decision advantage for daily military and intelligence operations.”
The proven on-orbit operational and technical heritage of the Gen-2 constellation has been leveraged into the design and operations of Gen-3. Gen-3 satellites generate high-cadence, time diverse 35-centimeter imagery that enables automated identification and classification of a wide library of vehicles, aircraft, vessels and other objects of military interest, enhancing the value of BlackSky’s current Gen-2 dawn-to-dusk dynamic monitoring services.
“As we integrate more and more Gen-3 satellites into the fleet, our early access customers will experience unparalleled reliability and quality of imagery at industry-leading speeds in support of the full range of strategic to tactical ISR missions,” said O’Toole.
On-Demand services provide flexible, subscription-based access to global satellite imagery and AI-driven analytics. The service is ideal for operations where responsiveness is paramount, with access to immediate tasking, multi-sensor data fusion and mission-ready insights when and where a customer needs them.
"BlackSky continues to be recognized as a trusted mission partner in helping our global customers quickly scale their advanced national space capabilities and become among the first to acquire early access to Gen-3,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “Existing On-Demand customers are quickly realizing how the immediate availability and powerful, comprehensive tip-and-cue utility between our Gen-3 and Gen-2 systems delivers a critical real-time decision advantage for daily military and intelligence operations.”
The proven on-orbit operational and technical heritage of the Gen-2 constellation has been leveraged into the design and operations of Gen-3. Gen-3 satellites generate high-cadence, time diverse 35-centimeter imagery that enables automated identification and classification of a wide library of vehicles, aircraft, vessels and other objects of military interest, enhancing the value of BlackSky’s current Gen-2 dawn-to-dusk dynamic monitoring services.
“As we integrate more and more Gen-3 satellites into the fleet, our early access customers will experience unparalleled reliability and quality of imagery at industry-leading speeds in support of the full range of strategic to tactical ISR missions,” said O’Toole.
On-Demand services provide flexible, subscription-based access to global satellite imagery and AI-driven analytics. The service is ideal for operations where responsiveness is paramount, with access to immediate tasking, multi-sensor data fusion and mission-ready insights when and where a customer needs them.
29 Oct 2025
BlackSky Signs Seven-Figure Space Domain Awareness Expansion Contract with HEO
HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) signed a seven-figure Gen-2 space domain awareness expansion contract with HEO to provide fully-automated low-latency non-Earth imaging (NEI) services for defense, intelligence and commercial use. The imagery data services deal is now moving into its fourth phase after completing the automation of the entire tasking-to-delivery process.
As part of the contract, HEO’s software platform will autonomously identify imaging opportunities and task BlackSky’s high-resolution Gen-2 satellites to detect, track, characterize, and classify objects in orbit, as well as assess potential threats and predict their effects. BlackSky's high-cadence imaging satellites fly in mid-inclination orbit and are expected to increase the feasibility of capturing NEI data over the middle latitudes of Earth, at certain times and places. The rapid tasking and delivery of NEI are expected to support critical space domain awareness applications, including constellation monitoring and anomaly detection.
“BlackSky has the ability to leverage remaining capacity typically associated with satellites passing over the ocean or satellites in eclipse, traveling across the dark side of Earth. Customers can now use that excess capacity, with a high-quality user experience, to monitor objects in space with no humans in the loop,” said O’Toole.
"Achieving true space awareness is going to require levels of inspection platforms across orbits, ready to capture imagery at a moment’s notice and HEO is building exactly that," said Dr. Will Crowe, Co-Founder and CEO of HEO. "BlackSky’s high-resolution satellites and automated capacity give us eyes in mid-inclination orbit, turning downtime into an intelligence goldmine for operators who need to know what’s happening around their assets, when it happens.”
HEO added BlackSky’s constellation into its current NEI sensor network in 2024. Customers can now request NEI products through HEO’s automated tasking and delivery platform, HEO Inspect. Once collected, BlackSky Gen-2 NEI and metadata are transferred into HEO Inspect where object detection and identification algorithms generate advanced analytics reports that include information such as a satellite’s attitude and location, subsystems identification and pattern-of-life analyses.
“BlackSky’s high-resolution Gen-2 high-cadence monitoring constellation continues to contribute valuable insight for space domain awareness,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “As on-orbit activities continue to increase, global monitoring efforts are expanding beyond terrestrial intelligence to include space intelligence. Automatically tasking and receiving NEI products reflects yet another pioneering innovation that gives customers reliable and actionable insight about spacecraft or on-orbit objects of interest at mission speed.”
As part of the contract, HEO’s software platform will autonomously identify imaging opportunities and task BlackSky’s high-resolution Gen-2 satellites to detect, track, characterize, and classify objects in orbit, as well as assess potential threats and predict their effects. BlackSky's high-cadence imaging satellites fly in mid-inclination orbit and are expected to increase the feasibility of capturing NEI data over the middle latitudes of Earth, at certain times and places. The rapid tasking and delivery of NEI are expected to support critical space domain awareness applications, including constellation monitoring and anomaly detection.
“BlackSky has the ability to leverage remaining capacity typically associated with satellites passing over the ocean or satellites in eclipse, traveling across the dark side of Earth. Customers can now use that excess capacity, with a high-quality user experience, to monitor objects in space with no humans in the loop,” said O’Toole.
"Achieving true space awareness is going to require levels of inspection platforms across orbits, ready to capture imagery at a moment’s notice and HEO is building exactly that," said Dr. Will Crowe, Co-Founder and CEO of HEO. "BlackSky’s high-resolution satellites and automated capacity give us eyes in mid-inclination orbit, turning downtime into an intelligence goldmine for operators who need to know what’s happening around their assets, when it happens.”
HEO added BlackSky’s constellation into its current NEI sensor network in 2024. Customers can now request NEI products through HEO’s automated tasking and delivery platform, HEO Inspect. Once collected, BlackSky Gen-2 NEI and metadata are transferred into HEO Inspect where object detection and identification algorithms generate advanced analytics reports that include information such as a satellite’s attitude and location, subsystems identification and pattern-of-life analyses.
“BlackSky’s high-resolution Gen-2 high-cadence monitoring constellation continues to contribute valuable insight for space domain awareness,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “As on-orbit activities continue to increase, global monitoring efforts are expanding beyond terrestrial intelligence to include space intelligence. Automatically tasking and receiving NEI products reflects yet another pioneering innovation that gives customers reliable and actionable insight about spacecraft or on-orbit objects of interest at mission speed.”
29 Oct 2025
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Understanding pattern of life with the Black Sea fleet: BlackSky Spectra® demo
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Space-based intelligence can be used to monitor vessel movements at scale.
BlackSky has monitored the Black Sea since January 2022, logging 70,000 naval vessel detections with Gen-2 imagery alone. The ever-changing movement of Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea demonstrates just how quickly a situation can evolve and the necessity of fast intelligence-gathering.
AI-enabled object detection can help organizations stay one step ahead of potential threats.
BlackSky has monitored the Black Sea since January 2022, logging 70,000 naval vessel detections with Gen-2 imagery alone. The ever-changing movement of Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea demonstrates just how quickly a situation can evolve and the necessity of fast intelligence-gathering.
AI-enabled object detection can help organizations stay one step ahead of potential threats.
Monitoring a region with China and Taiwan: BlackSky Spectra® demo
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The BlackSky Spectra® platform enables dynamic monitoring to help you see, understand and anticipate change for a decisive strategic advantage.
You can monitor multiple locations across an entire region up to 15 times per day, per location, to understand air activity, analyze force drawdown or buildup and confirm intelligence. Here, BlackSky captured change across China and automatically charted aircraft using Gen-2 imagery. China and automatically charted aircraft using Gen-2 imagery.
You can monitor multiple locations across an entire region up to 15 times per day, per location, to understand air activity, analyze force drawdown or buildup and confirm intelligence. Here, BlackSky captured change across China and automatically charted aircraft using Gen-2 imagery. China and automatically charted aircraft using Gen-2 imagery.
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BlackSky is a real-time, space-based intelligence company that delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events in the world. BlackSky owns and operates one of the industry’s most advanced, purpose-built commercial, real-time intelligence system that combines the power of the BlackSky Spectra® tasking and analytics software platform and our proprietary low earth orbit satellite constellation.
With BlackSky, customers can see, understand and anticipate changes for a decisive strategic advantage at the tactical edge, and act not just fast, but first. BlackSky is trusted by some of the most demanding U.S. and international government agencies, commercial businesses, and organizations around the world. BlackSky is headquartered in Herndon, VA, and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as BKSY.
With BlackSky, customers can see, understand and anticipate changes for a decisive strategic advantage at the tactical edge, and act not just fast, but first. BlackSky is trusted by some of the most demanding U.S. and international government agencies, commercial businesses, and organizations around the world. BlackSky is headquartered in Herndon, VA, and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as BKSY.
