Business
BlackSky Wins Seven-Figure Subscription Contract with New Government Customer for New and Advanced Gen-2 Mission Applications
HERNDON, Va., May 12, 2026--BlackSky awarded a seven-figure subscription contract with a new government customer for new and advanced Gen-2 mission applications.
About this update from Blacksky Technology Inc.
[{"type":"image","alt":"","displaySize":"","headline":null,"caption":"","credit":null,"className":"","disableSlideshowImg":false,"size":{"original":{"width":1366,"height":446,"url":"https://media.zenfs.com/en/business-wire.com/cd56509efcfb55ecb6d1db6bdf4cbd19"},"resized":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/B2xQaxSNrobUg3vDNP2q2Q--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTMxMw--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/business-wire.com/cd56509efcfb55ecb6d1db6bdf4cbd19","width":960,"height":313},"resize_sm":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/hWN2jg8s00nrZXPcOrYmgQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTIwOQ--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/business-wire.com/cd56509efcfb55ecb6d1db6bdf4cbd19","width":640,"height":209},"lightbox":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Ereh71MhK8JxRLkba0baiA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI0MDA7aD03ODQ-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/business-wire.com/cd56509efcfb55ecb6d1db6bdf4cbd19","width":1200,"height":392}},"lazy":false},{"type":"text","content":"Initial one-year period-of-performance contract expands access to Gen-2 capacity, increasing mission value for customers","length":120,"tagName":"p","attribs":{}},{"type":"text","content":"HERNDON, Va., May 12, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) was awarded a seven-figure subscription contract with a new government customer for new and advanced Gen-2 mission applications. This initial one-year period-of-performance contract expands access to Gen-2 capacity and increases mission value for the customer.","length":343,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""BlackSky’s Gen-2 constellation continues to provide tremendous real-time operational utility to our global customer base with high-cadence, rapid-revisit high resolution imagery and AI-enabled analytics," said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. "This contract opens the opportunity to extend Gen-2 constellation capacity while supporting mission critical customer needs for innovation."","length":401,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""As BlackSky successfully integrates additional Gen-3 satellites into our dual constellation framework, Gen-2 remains foundational to our real-time space-based intelligence capabilities, monitoring rapidly unfolding events on Earth and objects on orbit," said O’Toole.","length":278,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"With this agreement, BlackSky is leveragin...