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On April 22, BlackSky Technology Inc<\/a>. announced that it won a competitive $25 million, multi-year Assured contract with a major international defense customer. The new subscription deal accelerates the customer\u2019s national space capabilities while serving the needs of multiple operational branches with guaranteed access to best-in-class 35-centimeter Gen-3 imagery with real-time AI-enabled analytics, the company said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe proven operational performance of our 35-centimeter Gen-3 satellites is driving long-term commitments from major government customers that require mission critical intelligence from an industry-leading space-based intelligence platform,\u201d said Brian O\u2019Toole, BlackSky CEO. \u201cWith four Gen-3 satellites on orbit, BlackSky is now rapidly deploying Gen-3 capacity and driving up backlog and annual recurring revenue from our high margin space-based intelligence and AI services business.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agreement will leverage BlackSky\u2019s Spectra capabilities and the Gen-3 constellation in support of the customer\u2019s strategic and tactical maritime domain awareness mission applications. This customer has quickly incorporated capacity from BlackSky\u2019s most recent Gen-3 satellite, which rapidly\u00a0commissioned\u00a0in less than a week following launch last month. With four Gen-3 satellites now on orbit, BlackSky has opened general availability to its global customer base.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Early Access Gen-3 On-Demand customer transitioned to a new, multi-year Assured contract after validating BlackSky\u2019s ability to provide committed capacity over their region of interest with reliable, low-latency mission-critical imagery and analytics,\u201d O\u2019Toole said. \u201cThrough this partnership, BlackSky continues to successfully execute our land-and-expand strategy and is committed to providing our customers unparalleled strategic and tactical situational awareness at industry-leading speed, scale and economics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assured\u00a0services enable guaranteed access and priority tasking capacity through BlackSky\u2019s proprietary, dynamic monitoring constellation over the customer\u2019s national and regional areas of interest. Assured is also the first commercially available imagery and analytics tasking service to offer guaranteed collection commitments. With the improved image clarity of Gen-3, BlackSky\u2019s proprietary AI algorithms automate identification and classification of an expanded set of vehicles, aircraft, vessels and other objects of tactical relevance at machine speed.<\/p>\n

Source: BlackSky<\/p>\n

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