{"id":4832,"date":"2025-08-20T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blacksky-secures-seven-figure-contract-with-heo-to-expand-gen-2-space-domain-awareness-services\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:30:59","slug":"blacksky-secures-seven-figure-contract-with-heo-to-expand-gen-2-space-domain-awareness-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blacksky-secures-seven-figure-contract-with-heo-to-expand-gen-2-space-domain-awareness-services\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackSky Secures Seven-Figure Contract with HEO to Expand Gen-2 Space Domain Awareness Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BlackSky Technology<\/strong> has signed a seven-figure Gen-2 space domain awareness expansion contract with HEO to provide fully automated, low-latency, non-Earth imaging (NEI) services for defense, intelligence, and commercial use. The imagery data services deal is now entering its fourth phase, following the completion of the automation of the entire task-to-delivery process.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>BlackSky<\/em>\u2019s high-resolution Gen-2 high-cadence monitoring constellation continues to contribute valuable insight for space domain awareness,\u201d <\/strong>said <\/strong><\/em>Brian O\u2019Toole<\/strong><\/em>, BlackSky CEO<\/strong>. \u201cAs on-orbit activities continue to increase, global monitoring efforts are expanding beyond terrestrial intelligence to include space intelligence. Automatically tasking and receiving NEI products reflects yet another pioneering innovation that gives customers reliable and actionable insight about spacecraft or on-orbit objects of interest at mission speed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

As part of the contract, HEO\u2019s software platform will autonomously identify imaging opportunities and task BlackSky\u2019s high-resolution Gen-2 satellites to detect, track, characterize, and classify objects in orbit, as well as assess potential threats and predict their effects. BlackSky’s high-cadence imaging satellites fly in mid-inclination orbit and are expected to increase the feasibility of capturing NEI data over the middle latitudes of Earth, at certain times and places. The rapid tasking and delivery of NEI are expected to support critical space domain awareness applications, including constellation monitoring and anomaly detection.<\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/em>BlackSky<\/em> can leverage remaining capacity typically associated with satellites passing over the ocean or satellites in eclipse, traveling across the dark side of Earth. Customers can now use that excess capacity, with a high-quality user experience, to monitor objects in space with no humans in the loop,\u201d said O\u2019Toole<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Achieving true space awareness is going to require levels of inspection platforms across orbits, ready to capture imagery at a moment\u2019s notice, and <\/em>HEO<\/em> is building exactly that,” <\/strong>said <\/strong><\/em>Dr. Will Crowe<\/strong><\/em>, Co-Founder and CEO of HEO<\/strong>. “<\/em>BlackSky<\/em>\u2019s high-resolution satellites and automated capacity give us eyes in mid-inclination orbit, turning downtime into an intelligence goldmine for operators who need to know what\u2019s happening around their assets, when it happens.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

HEO added BlackSky\u2019s constellation into its current NEI sensor network in 2024. Customers can now request NEI products through HEO\u2019s automated tasking and delivery platform, HEO Inspect. Once collected, BlackSky Gen-2 NEI and metadata are transferred into HEO Inspect, where object detection and identification algorithms generate advanced analytics reports that include information such as a satellite\u2019s attitude and location, subsystems identification, and pattern-of-life analyses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BlackSky Technology has signed a seven-figure Gen-2 space domain awareness expansion contract with HEO to provide fully automated, low-latency, non-Earth imaging (NEI) services for defense, intelligence, and commercial use. The imagery data services deal is now entering its fourth phase, following the completion of the automation of the entire task-to-delivery process. \u201cBlackSky\u2019s high-resolution Gen-2 high-cadence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41,26,20,40],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-defense","tag-ground","tag-satellite","tag-satellite-cameras"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}