{"id":6037,"date":"2025-02-12T00:25:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blacksky-and-rocket-lab-to-launch-the-first-gen-3-imaging-satellite\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T00:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:25:28","slug":"blacksky-and-rocket-lab-to-launch-the-first-gen-3-imaging-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blacksky-and-rocket-lab-to-launch-the-first-gen-3-imaging-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackSky and Rocket Lab to Launch the First Gen-3 Imaging Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/re111_638748455621197320.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"BlackSky and Rocket Lab to Launch the First Gen-3 Imaging Satellite\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/re111_638748455621197320.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/re111_638748455621197320.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>BlackSky Technology Inc. and Rocket Lab USA, Inc. have established a launch window opening February 18 for the first Gen-3 satellite. The launch, \u201cFasten Your Space Belts,\u201d will add very high-resolution 35-centimeter imaging capability to BlackSky\u2019s high-cadence, low-latency data and AI-enabled analytics offerings.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis launch represents a major inflection point for our global defense and intelligence customer base as BlackSky introduces very high-resolution Gen-3 capabilities to our high-frequency, low-latency monitoring constellation,\u201d<\/em> said <strong>Brian O\u2019Toole, BlackSky CEO<\/strong>. <em>\u201cAs more Gen-3 satellites complete production, we expect a regular cadence of additional launches over the coming year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: What is a Launch Vehicle?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cElectron is a trusted and reliable constellation builder for companies like BlackSky, allowing them to control how, when, and where to deploy their constellation. BlackSky is one of our earliest and longest-standing commercial satellite customers, and it\u2019s great to be heading back to the pad with them once again to continue to advance and expand their constellation,\u201d<\/em> said <strong>Sir Peter Beck, Rocket Lab founder and CEO<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As BlackSky\u2019s constellation evolves with the regular addition of Gen-3 satellites, BlackSky will continue to optimize for increased constellation capacity and flexibility giving customers confidence in reliable access to services. Gen-3 customers will be able to conduct the automated detection, identification, and classification of a wide library of vehicles, aircraft, vessels, and other objects of tactical interest. These new capabilities will further enable BlackSky\u2019s space-based intelligence applications for tactical ISR missions and strategic intelligence operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackSky Technology Inc. and Rocket Lab USA, Inc. have established a launch window opening February 18 for the first Gen-3 satellite. The launch, \u201cFasten Your Space Belts,\u201d will add very high-resolution 35-centimeter imaging capability to BlackSky\u2019s high-cadence, low-latency data and AI-enabled analytics offerings. \u201cThis launch represents a major inflection point for our global defense and [&hellip;]<\/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":[26,25,20],"class_list":["post-6037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037"}],"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=6037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}