Satellite imagery of a key Russian naval base along the Black Sea has revealed strange behavior, specifically dozens of military vessels dispersing from the facility, only to return a little later.
The images, collected by BlackSky in September and obtained by Business Insider, show Russia either partially or completely dispersing its naval vessels from the port of Novorossiysk for brief periods on three separate occasions that month.
North Korea’s constitution now officially defines South Korea as a “hostile state”, marking the first time the regime declared legal changes dictated by Kim Jong-un, according to state media. North Korea’s defence ministry said they have destroyed up to 60m-long sections of two pairs of roads and railway routes, one pair on the western portion of the inter-Korean border and the other on the eastern side. A satellite image (supplied by BlackSky) captured on 16 October at 11.08 am local time shows damage to one of the roads on the Demilitarized Zone border of Kaesong, North Korea.
Business Insider obtained the satellite image from BlackSky, a real-time, space-based intelligence company. It shows the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s Liaoning and Shandong carriers docked at the same pier at Sanya Naval Base on Hainan Island, just east of Vietnam.
BlackSky is expanding into space domain awareness (SDA) with a new contract to support an unnamed customer to deliver non-Earth imaging (NEI). Instead of providing satellite imagery of Earth, BlackSky will collect imagery of on-orbit spacecraft for the customer.
Two grey shapes, visible from satellites for most of this year at Cambodia’s Ream naval base, seem to confirm growing fears in Washington: that China is expanding its military footprint, beyond the three disputed islands in the South China Sea which it has already seized and fortified.
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has been awarded a five-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), worth up to $290 million. The contract, known as Luno A, focuses on monitoring global economic and environmental activity and military capabilities using advanced satellite imagery and AI-based change detection analytics.
BlackSky Technology, a leading provider of real-time geospatial intelligence, announced on 1 October that it had secured a $6m contract expansion with an undisclosed international defence sector customer.
Geospatial intelligence company BlackSky plans to make its future Gen-3 satellites compatible with military networks, aiming to expand its footprint in the defense sector.
The US Navy will pay EO company BlackSky ($BKSY) to study how the company’s next-generation satellites can leverage optical communications terminals (OCTs), the company said yesterday.
BlackSky Technology announced “a seven-figure” contract Sept. 19 from Australian startup HEO to provide imagery of space objects for defense, intelligence and commercial use.