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BlackSky Secures $100 Million Defense Contract for Gen-3 Monitoring Capabilities
BlackSky Technology won a seven-year contract worth over $100 million with an unnamed, strategic international defense partner for real-time, space-based monitoring capabilities, the company announced Jan. 28.
The deal includes current Gen-2 capabilities and allows the defense partner to access Gen-3 satellites, which offer 35 cm high-resolution imagery and sub-hourly revisit rates. The deal includes annual capacity minimums. BlackSky said its subscription-based model allows the customer to adopt these capabilities into daily intelligence operations.
BlackSky CEO, Brian O’Toole commented: “High-cadence monitoring has become a foundational piece for many of our customers’ daily intelligence operations. This commitment now gives the customer priority, long-term access to capacity with the flexibility to accommodate novel Gen-3 features as end-user requirements evolve.”
This follows after BlackSky announced the shipment of its first Gen-3 satellite on Jan. 23. The satellite is planned for launch in February.
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