BlackSky Awarded Gen-3 Assured Services Contracts Totaling Seven Figures with New International Defense Customer Following Early Access Period

Expansion deals mark rapid shift toward advanced space-based dynamic monitoring capabilities as customer quickly scales to support time-sensitive tactical ISR operational needs

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) was awarded multiple Gen-3 Assured services contracts totaling seven figures with a new international defense customer following the early access period. The expansion deals mark a rapid customer shift toward adopting advanced space-based dynamic monitoring capabilities as the customer quickly scales to support time-sensitive tactical ISR operational needs.

“This partnership reflects continued traction against our land-and-expand strategy and demonstrates the growing recognition that dynamic space-based intelligence is no longer optional—it's essential,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “Assured gives our customers guaranteed, priority access to Gen-3 capacity over their operational areas of interest. The quality and reliability of collections experienced during Assured early access programs play a key factor in compelling customers to renew their subscriptions.”

BlackSky’s continued international expansion represents increased demand for agile, responsive space-based intelligence capabilities. Our unique dynamic monitoring platform is meeting customer needs for multiple daily revisits, on-demand tasking, and very high-resolution imagery data—all integrated securely into existing intelligence workflows.

“Our customers confront threats that evolve in real-time, and their intelligence systems need to match the demands of that operational tempo. BlackSky’s Gen-3 Assured delivers the persistent monitoring, tasking flexibility, and rapid response that modern defense and intelligence organizations need as they navigate the demands of a highly fluid geopolitical landscape,” said O’Toole.

The advanced capabilities and performance improvements of Gen-3 provide customers with an expanded set of flexible space-based intelligence applications for tactical ISR and strategic intelligence operations. Gen-3 imagery enables the automated detection, identification and classification of a wide collection of aircraft, vehicles, vessels and other objects of tactical interest at machine speed. Dedicated access to BlackSky’s Gen-3 leverages the power of our fully automated, end-to-end commercial architecture to deliver real-time situational awareness at mission speed and scale.

About BlackSky

BlackSky is a real-time, space-based intelligence company that delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events in the world. BlackSky owns and operates one of the industry’s most advanced, purpose-built commercial, real-time intelligence systems that combines the power of the BlackSky Spectra® tasking and analytics software platform and our proprietary low earth orbit satellite constellation.

With BlackSky, customers can see, understand and anticipate changes for a decisive strategic advantage at the tactical edge, and act not just fast, but first. BlackSky is trusted by some of the most demanding U.S. and international government agencies, commercial businesses, and organizations around the world. BlackSky is headquartered in Herndon, VA, and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as BKSY. To learn more, visit www.blacksky.com and follow us on X.

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