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Commercial satellite imagery leaders see increased international demand
Commercial satellite imagery and sensing leaders see growing demand in the international market for geospatial intelligence and are looking at ways to increase collaboration and streamline the way U.S. government and international partners can access commercial insights.
BlackSky CEO Brian O’Toole echoed “strong momentum” from international government customers, saying these governments want to move faster with commercial capabilities.
“Our partners want to more rapidly build internal capacity, either through sovereign satellites, but also in software and AI. I think that’s where the opportunity is right now — countries around the world see the need to accelerate their space-based intelligence capabilities. Commercial is a really good way to get there very quickly that leverages things that are already on orbit, plus entering into long-term partnerships that help build that capacity,” O’Toole said.
How Earth observation satellite operators are teaming up to tip and cue one another
Coordinating observations of space-based sensors, known as tipping and cueing, has been an industry goal for decades. In spite of daunting technical challenges, tipping and cueing is now becoming more common and more seamless thanks in part to the proliferation of satellite sensors and artificial intelligence, which helps automate the task of sharing the geographic location of an interesting site or the trajectory of a moving vehicle or vessel. It’s also accelerating the fusion of data from complementary sensors.
“The real opportunity is making Earth-observation satellites work together to deliver actionable intelligence,” said Brian O’Toole, the CEO of imagery and analytics firm BlackSky. “Most customers don’t want to process raw data. They just want the answers.”
BlackSky looks to make Gen-3 widely available this year
While BlackSky Technology [BKSY] said that it is to make its Generation-3 Earth imaging satellites widely available this year, the company is offering “early access” to a select group of “multiple international defense sector customers,” BlackSky said on Tuesday.
“The customers will now be able to integrate very high-resolution, 35-centimeter imagery into daily intelligence operations,” the company said.
BlackSky CEO Brian O’Toole said in the company’s Tuesday statement that the Gen-3 early access agreements “demonstrate confidence in the quality and reliability of our imagery products and will give these customers transformative capabilities that BlackSky uniquely delivers through our proven end-to-end, next-generation artificial intelligence [AI]-enabled commercial architecture.”