Blacksky Technology, Inc. is a space-based intelligence company, which engages in the business of delivering real-time imagery, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events. The company is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia and currently employs 340 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2019-12-20. The firm delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, monitoring and analytics of the strategic locations, economic assets, and events in the world. The company designs, owns, and operates low earth orbit small satellite constellations. Its BlackSky Spectra platform processes data from its constellation and from other third-party sensors to develop the critical insights and analytics that its customers require. Its Spectra is a first-of-its-kind commercial platform that helps customers manage their monitoring activities from space. Spectra software platform processes millions of observations a day from both its proprietary satellite constellations and by using data from multiple external sources, including imaging, radar and radio frequency satellites, environmental sensors, asset tracking sensors, Internet of Thing connected devices, internet-enabled narrative sources, and a variety of geotemporal data feeds.
