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BlackSky wins second NGA ‘Luno’ contract to track global changes with satellites and AI
WASHINGTON — BlackSky secured a second contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under the Luno A program, the company announced Sept. 16.
The award, confirmed by NGA to be worth about $5 million, brings BlackSky’s total orders under Luno A to nearly $30 million in just three months. The deal underscores the agency’s push to fold commercial satellite data and artificial intelligence into U.S. national security workflows.
BlackSky’s first Luno A award, announced in June, was worth $24.4 million and tasked the company with facility and object monitoring — tracking activity around aircraft, ships, ground equipment, and railcars, and identifying changes at high-priority sites.
Under the second award, according to BlackSky, the company will fuse data from its Gen-3 and Gen-2 imaging satellites with other commercial sources to detect areas of the Earth undergoing human-caused change. That includes shifts in natural resources, climate effects, infrastructure growth, and both economic and military activity.
BlackSky and Iceye join group creating Earth’s digital twin
Blacksky and Iceye have joined forces with AI-visualization specialists Aechelon Technology and Niantic Spatial to create a digital twin of Earth.
The joint campaign to create a planetary-scale geospatial model that can be frequently refreshed with satellite observations is called Project Orbion.
BlackSky high-resolution visual imagery and Iceye synthetic aperture radar data will feed into Skybeam, Aechelon’s three-dimensional global database.
Project Orbion is addressing the challenge of merging various sources of imagery and data in an enterprise environment, Scott Currie, Blacksky vice president of geospatial solutions, told SpaceNews.
BlackSky doubles down on Aussie NEI partnership
BlackSky ($BKSY) announced a seven-figure deal yesterday that will expand its non-Earth imaging (NEI) partnership with HEO, the Australian space domain awareness company.
The two companies partnered up in September (also to the tune of seven figures), under a deal to place BlackSky’s NEI services within HEO’s sensor network. This week’s deal extends that partnership.
It gives HEO’s software platform—called HEO Inspect—the ability to autonomously task BlackSky’s Gen-2 satellites, which then deliver non-Earth imagery and metadata directly into HEO Inspect.
Working overtime: The expanded partnership also comes with very little opportunity cost to BlackSky, officials explained, because the NEI requests are mostly expected to arrive when BlackSky sats aren’t imaging the Earth.
“BlackSky has the ability to leverage remaining capacity typically associated with satellites passing over the ocean or satellites in eclipse, traveling across the dark side of Earth,” Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO, said in a statement. “Customers can now use that excess capacity…to monitor objects in space, with no humans in the loop.”