BlackSky Technology has won a contract to provide immediate on-demand subscription-based Gen-3 and Gen-2 monitoring services for Latin American defence and intelligence customers combating transnational organised crime.
“BlackSky’s low-latency, high-cadence monitoring services give government security forces an unparalleled strategic and tactical first-to-act advantage,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “By increasing the speed, volume and diversity of space-based data sources, end users gain persistent visibility into pattern-of-life anomalies such as irregular migration or vehicle, vessel and aircraft movements.”
The agreement enables end-users to set up AI-enabled automated tip-and-cue tasking for BlackSky’s proprietary Gen-3 and Gen-2 satellites. It also provides access to BlackSky Archive imagery and analytics data, along with the ability to order third-party commercial constellation data through the BlackSky Spectra tasking and analytics platform.
“On-demand subscriptions give our customers fast, flexible access to BlackSky’s global satellite imagery services and is ideal for operations where responsiveness is paramount, with immediate tasking, multi-sensor data fusion and mission-ready analytics when and where our customers need them,” said O’Toole.
BlackSky achieves industry-leading speed through its constellation design and a commitment to end-to-end AI-driven system automation. With rapid, hourly revisit rates, the BlackSky Spectra tasking and analytics platform is pitched as delivering high-cadence, time-diverse imagery and analytics up to 15 times per day. This provides decision-quality data directly to those who need it most – from senior leaders to those on the ground.
