The contract leverages the company’s fully automated end-to-end architecture, enabled by the BlackSky Spectra software platform and its ground network. This structure is designed to deliver real-time insights at mission speed and scale.
“With this agreement, our customer will have national on-orbit, best-in-class 35-centimeter imaging and AI-enabled analytics capabilities within months, not years,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “BlackSky is accelerating how our global customer base adopts advanced, space-based intelligence by quickly moving Gen-3 units from our agile production line through our rapid deployment process, effectively enabling long-term mission capabilities in very little time.”
Under the agreement, Assured services will provide the customer with immediate guaranteed access and priority tasking capacity through BlackSky’s proprietary dynamic monitoring constellation over national and regional areas of interest. Once operational, the Gen-3 satellite will operate in parallel with BlackSky’s constellation to deliver mission-relevant insights at industry-leading speeds.
The Gen-3 system offers enhanced image clarity that expands AI-enabled detection, identification and classification across a wide range of vehicles, aircraft, vessels and other tactically relevant objects. BlackSky states that this capability supports faster and more detailed analysis for operational use.
BlackSky maintains proprietary in-house satellite design and agile manufacturing, constellation operations and end-to-end advanced software development capabilities. The company says this vertically integrated approach allows it to quickly develop, produce and deploy reliable space-based intelligence solutions at disruptive speed, scale and economics.
To address global demand for guaranteed access to data when and where customers need it, BlackSky offers On-Demand and Assured subscription access as well as full sovereign systems. The company describes itself as a real-time, space-based intelligence provider delivering on-demand, high-frequency imagery, analytics and monitoring of critical and strategic locations, economic assets and events worldwide.
BlackSky owns and operates a purpose-built commercial real-time intelligence system that combines its BlackSky Spectra® tasking and analytics software platform with its proprietary low Earth orbit satellite constellation. The company says this integrated system enables high-frequency monitoring and rapid delivery of actionable intelligence.
