BlackSky Wins Contract to Deliver Gen-3 and Gen-2 Monitoring Services to Latin American Defense and Intelligence Customers

BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) won a contract to provide immediate On-Demand subscription-based Gen-3 and Gen-2 monitoring services for Latin American defense and intelligence customers in the fight against transnational organized crime.

“BlackSky’s low-latency, high-cadence monitoring services give government security forces an unparalleled strategic and tactical first-to-act advantage,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “By increasing the speed, volume and diversity of space-based data sources, end users gain persistent visibility into pattern-of-life anomalies such as irregular migration or vehicle, vessel and aircraft movements.”

The agreement gives end-users the ability to set up AI-enabled automated tip-and-cue tasking for BlackSky’s proprietary Gen-3 and Gen-2 satellites, access to BlackSky Archive imagery and analytics data, plus the ability to order third-party commercial constellation data through the BlackSky Spectra tasking and analytics platform.

“On-Demand subscriptions give our customers fast, flexible access to BlackSky’s global satellite imagery services and is ideal for operations where responsiveness is paramount, with immediate tasking, multi-sensor data fusion and mission-ready analytics when and where our customers need them,” said O’Toole.

BlackSky achieves industry-leading speed through constellation design and a dedication to end-to-end AI-driven system automation. With rapid, hourly revisit rates, the BlackSky Spectra® tasking and analytics platform delivers high-cadence, time-diverse imagery and analytics up to 15 times per day, providing decision-quality data directly to those who need it most—from senior leaders to those in the field.