{"id":6100,"date":"2025-01-24T18:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blacksky-to-ship-first-gen-3-satellite-to-rocket-lab\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T18:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:20:28","slug":"blacksky-to-ship-first-gen-3-satellite-to-rocket-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blacksky-to-ship-first-gen-3-satellite-to-rocket-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackSky to Ship First Gen-3 Satellite to Rocket Lab"},"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\/a1_638732987284428103.jpg\" width=\"712\" height=\"387\" alt=\"BlackSky to Ship First Gen-3 Satellite to Rocket Lab\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/a1_638732987284428103.jpg\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/a1_638732987284428103.jpg\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"387\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>BlackSky Technology<\/strong>, 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, ships its first Gen-3 satellite to launch provider <strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong>. The satellite is planned for launch in February from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. The Gen-3 constellation will offer customers new mission critical insights with the addition of very high-resolution, rapid-revisit 35-centimeter imagery and AI-enabled analytics delivered at industry-leading speed and scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Gen-3 represents a transformative leap forward for space-based intelligence, combining very high- resolution imagery with high frequency monitoring<\/em>,\u201d said <strong>Brian O\u2019Toole<\/strong>, BlackSky CEO. \u201cWhen combined with BlackSky <strong>Spectra\u00ae<\/strong>, the Gen-3 constellation is designed to deliver data at sub-hourly, mission-relevant speeds. We look forward to the inaugural launch and introducing the advanced features of our Gen-3 satellites to our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: What are the the Different Types of Launch Vehicles used in Space?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c<em>BlackSky has developed Gen-3 to address significant demand from key defense and intelligence customers around the world as evidenced by the significant contracted backlog we have secured for Gen-3 services<\/em>,\u201d said <strong>O\u2019Toole<\/strong>. \u201cOnce we commission this first satellite, we expect to move forward with a regular cadence of additional launches throughout the year as more Gen-3 satellites come off the production line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The evolution of BlackSky\u2019s constellation will continue to optimize for increased capacity and flexibility with the regular addition of Gen-3 satellites. 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. Low-latency intersatellite communications will give customers the flexibility to conduct high-priority, last-minute tasking, while agile onboard attitude control systems allow for maximum on-orbit operational efficiency. 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, 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, ships its first Gen-3 satellite to launch provider Rocket Lab. The satellite is planned for launch in February from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 [&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":[25,20],"class_list":["post-6100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100"}],"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=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}