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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.”
BlackSky heralds new two-year early access agreement with international buyer for 35 centimeter imagery
BlackSky Technology [BKSY] has a new “early access” international buyer of the company’s Generation-3 35-centimeter imagery, the company said on Tuesday. The company “secured a two-year Gen-3 early access agreement with a new international customer that initiated a Gen-2 On-Demand contract in January,” BlackSky said. “The rapid expansion commitment illustrates the tremendous operational value and growing demand for combined Gen-3 very high-resolution imagery and Gen-2 low-latency, high-cadence dynamic monitoring services.”
BlackSky to advance OISL terminal applications for Gen-3 constellation
BlackSky Technology has secured the next phase of a competitive research contract from the US Navy for the advancement of optical inter-satellite link (OISL) terminal technology for its Gen-3 imaging satellite constellation.
The initial contract, won by BlackSky in September 2024, aims to provide warfighters with instantaneous access to high-resolution imagery and vital information during urgent military operations across the globe.
The development of OISL terminals is anticipated to expedite the transfer of large volumes of space-based data, including very high-resolution imagery, directly between satellites prior to being relayed to ground stations.
The Gen-3 satellites equipped with these advanced OISL terminals will be compatible with the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer and commercial transport networks.