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BlackSky completes critical design review milestone with major international defense customer

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BlackSky completes critical design review milestone with major international defense customer

BlackSky Technology recently completed a critical design review (CDR) with a major international defense customer successfully confirming that the company’s next-generation architecture, powered by its Gen-3 constellation, will deliver industry-leading secure, AI-derived real-time intelligence within minutes.


“Completing the CDR is a monumental achievement validating BlackSky's space-based tactical ISR services meet our customer’s long-term mission needs,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “BlackSky’s Spectra® tasking and analytics data-fusion platform architecture is being optimized in parallel to the development of the company’s advanced Gen-3 constellation to deliver very high-resolution imagery and AI-powered analytics at unprecedented speed.”


This important milestone confirms that BlackSky’s image quality, time-diverse revisit, order and delivery timelines and precision AI-enabled analytics standards are technically aligned with the customer’s real-time space-based intelligence mission requirements.


“BlackSky’s next-generation services will feature fully automated multi-sensor tip-and-cue capabilities that give customers the ability to securely task and receive very-high resolution imagery and precision AI-derived analytics that support minute-by-minute situational awareness during time-sensitive mission operations,” said O’Toole.


BlackSky's first Gen-3 satellite launched on February 18 and delivered first light images just five days afterward. BlackSky’s proprietary, advanced detection and identification algorithms delivered AI-enabled analytics derived from new, very high-resolution Gen-3 imagery three weeks following launch. With BlackSky's first Gen-3 satellite now on orbit, the company plans to expand the constellation at a regular cadence over the next 12 months.

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