BlackSky Technology has secured a multimillion-dollar contract with a new international defense customer for its Gen-3 and Gen-2 satellite-based monitoring services, the company announced Tuesday. The deal includes both immediate access to high-resolution imagery and modernization of the customer’s ground segment infrastructure.
According to the Virginia-based contractor, the deal provides subscription-based access to its Assured services, offering rapid tasking capabilities for persistent surveillance over the client’s key areas of interest. BlackSky will upgrade the customer’s mission operations center to support direct-downlink and uplink capabilities.
The unnamed customer will also use BlackSky’s Spectra platform, an artificial intelligence-powered tasking and analytics system that automates the detection, identification and classification of targets such as vehicles, vessels and aircraft.
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“Our international allied customers continue to lead as early adopters, constantly developing novel applications for AI-enabled change-based monitoring,” said BlackSky CEO Brian O’Toole.
“For this contract BlackSky will also be optimizing the ground segment, making the customer’s overall sovereign architecture forward-compatible with the high processing volumes associated with low-latency, high-cadence space-based monitoring.”
The announcement follows another deal last week in which BlackSky granted Gen-3 early access to an existing international client supporting Ukraine. That agreement expanded the client’s current subscription to include Gen-3 imagery while continuing to leverage Gen-2’s high-frequency monitoring capabilities.