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BlackSky Technology<\/strong> was awarded a seven-figure data services contract from HEO<\/strong> to bring automated low-latency capabilities to non-Earth imaging (NEI) services for defense, intelligence and commercial use. Under the agreement, the companies will partner to bring BlackSky\u2019s current constellation into HEO\u2019s NEI sensor network. The contract is now moving into its second phase with a focus on automating the entire tasking-to-delivery process, following a successful initial proof of concept phase.<\/p>\n BlackSky will provide proprietary mid-inclination orbit, high-resolution imagery to HEO. BlackSky\u2019s high-cadence imaging capabilities are expected to increase the feasibility of capturing NEI data over the middle latitudes of Earth. Activating NEI capabilities gives BlackSky the ability to leverage unused capacity typically associated with satellites passing over the ocean or satellites in eclipse, traveling across the dark side of Earth.<\/p>\n \u201cLeveraging the power of real-time dynamic monitoring in the space domain unlocks additional value from BlackSky\u2019s high-resolution constellation<\/em>,\u201d said <\/strong>Brian O\u2019Toole<\/strong>, BlackSky CEO<\/strong>. \u201cSpace situational awareness is critically important for our customers as the space domain continues to become a highly contested operational environment. Automatically tasking and receiving NEI products reflects yet another pioneering innovation that gives customers reliable and actionable space-based intelligence about spacecraft or on-orbit objects of interest at mission speed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHEO is driving innovation in space by delivering non-Earth imaging solutions at scale, giving our customers in-orbit insights when timing is crucial<\/em>,\u201d said <\/strong>Dr. Will Crowe,<\/strong> Co-Founder and CEO of HEO. <\/strong>\u201cAdding BlackSky\u2019s high-resolution constellation to HEO\u2019s sensor network through this partnership will unlock even more applications of NEI data across industries.\u201d<\/p>\n Customers will be able to request NEI products through HEO\u2019s automated tasking and delivery platform, HEO Inspect. Upon request, HEO\u2019s software automatically finds imaging opportunities and sets tasks on BlackSky\u2019s mission scheduling system via API. Once collected, BlackSky NEI imagery and metadata from its current constellation will be transferred into HEO Inspect where object detection and identification algorithms will 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 was awarded a seven-figure data services contract from HEO to bring automated low-latency capabilities to non-Earth imaging (NEI) services for defense, intelligence and commercial use. Under the agreement, the companies will partner to bring BlackSky\u2019s current constellation into HEO\u2019s NEI sensor network. The contract is now moving into its second phase with a […]<\/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-6507","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\/6507"}],"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=6507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}