Thales Alenia Space and partners agreed to manufacture and deliver a high-revisit smallsat constellation for BlackSky; TAS/Telespazio/Spaceflight partnership will supply satellites and supporting systems for BlackSky’s geospatial platform (announcement of partnership to accelerate BlackSky constellation).
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Rocket Lab— launch services · mission user3 connectionsTell me more
Rocket Lab provides dedicated Electron launch missions to BlackSky; Rocket Lab secured a multi-launch contract to launch four dedicated Electron missions for BlackSky (launch services for BlackSky constellation deployment).
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Rocket Lab provides dedicated Electron launch services for multiple BlackSky satellites since 2019, including nine or more missions and the first several Gen-3 satellites launched in 2025 (e.g., 'Fasten Your Space Belts,' 'Full Stream Ahead').
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Beyond dedicated multi‑launch contracts, BlackSky is a recurrent customer for Rocket Lab’s Electron launches to deploy its Earth‑imaging satellites (Rocket Lab serves BlackSky as launch provider and mission enabler).
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Spaceflight— mission user · rideshare / historical corporate relationship2 connectionsTell me more
Spaceflight integrated and deployed BlackSky Global Pathfinder satellites as secondary payloads on Sherpa-equipped rideshare missions (e.g., early constellation support missions around 2018).
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Spaceflight (formerly part of the Spaceflight Industries family connected with BlackSky) provided commercial rideshare and mission management services historically associated with BlackSky's parent company; Spaceflight was a related rideshare/launch services business in BlackSky/Spaceflight Industries' corporate ecosystem (transactional history referenced in BlackSky press materials).
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HEO— customer · customer / program partner2 connectionsTell me more
HEO supplies space domain awareness (SDA) data, non-Earth imaging services, and insights to BlackSky under contract, unlocking additional constellation value (contract awarded 2024).
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HEO supplies BlackSky with space‑domain‑awareness analytics and NEI inspection services via HEO Inspect; the companies executed a contract/partnership to transfer BlackSky NEI imagery and metadata into HEO Inspect where HEO runs object detection, identification and analytics.
Spaceflight Industries provided rideshare launch services and mission management to satellite operator BlackSky, managing the launch of BlackSky smallsats (including two BlackSky satellites launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 via a Spaceflight rideshare contract) to support BlackSky's constellation expansion.
BlackSky supplies on-demand satellite imagery and tasking services to Esri users via direct integration in ArcGIS Online; partnership announced in 2022 enabling dynamic tasking for ArcGIS customers.
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BlackSky program partners
Spire Global, Inc.— mission partner / customer · strategic partner / mission user2 connectionsTell me more
Spire supplies BlackSky with maritime and other sensor datasets that are integrated with BlackSky’s imagery and AI analytics for a joint maritime custody product, making Spire a direct data supplier/partner for BlackSky’s service.
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Spire and BlackSky partnered to provide a real-time, AI-driven maritime custody service combining Spire’s maritime and AIS data with BlackSky’s high-frequency optical imagery and Spectra AI processing; Spire supplies maritime data and sensor fusion to the joint service.
BlackSky (via Spaceflight Industries / partnership) is the geospatial platform partner for which Thales Alenia Space and LeoStella were engaged to manufacture smallsats and provide systems integration, enabling TAS to scale smallsat production and in-orbit services for BlackSky’s high-revisit constellation.
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Thales Alenia Space— strategic partner · strategic partner / supplier2 connectionsTell me more
Thales Alenia Space was the original 50% JV partner with BlackSky in LeoStella (2018–2024); the companies continue collaboration post-acquisition.
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Thales Alenia Space, together with Telespazio and Spaceflight Industries, formed a partnership to accelerate BlackSky’s geospatial platform and high-revisit constellation, providing spacecraft and constellation development expertise (partner / supplier role).
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HEO— strategic partner · supplier / program partner2 connectionsTell me more
BlackSky provides satellite platforms and sensors that enable HEO's non-Earth imaging (NEI) missions and space domain awareness (SDA) data collection; HEO partners with BlackSky constellations for high-frequency satellite inspections.
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BlackSky supplies on‑demand NEI imagery and metadata from its LEO constellation into HEO Inspect; the two companies have a space‑domain‑awareness program relationship to generate object detection, identification and analytics in HEO Inspect.
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LeoStella— co owner / strategic partner · program partner2 connectionsTell me more
BlackSky is co-owner of LeoStella (joint venture partner) and collaborates with LeoStella on SDA Hybrid Acquisition (BlackSky as subcontractor/partner for HALO) and on constellation spacecraft production, enabling LeoStella market access to Earth-observation constellation customers.
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BlackSky is a subcontractor partner to LeoStella for the Space Development Agency (SDA) Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (HALO) program; BlackSky supplies imagery/mission expertise and operations support as part of the joint on-orbit mission-feasibility prototypes (BlackSky serves LeoStella/SDA work).
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Internalized capabilities
LeoStella— acquired capability · customer · 2 more roles4 connectionsTell me more
LeoStella, originally a 50/50 joint venture between BlackSky and Thales Alenia Space founded in 2018, manufactures BlackSky's imaging satellites (including Gen-3) at its Tukwila, Washington facility; BlackSky acquired full ownership of LeoStella in November 2024 to control Gen-3 supply chain and production.
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LeoStella designs and manufactures BlackSky's Earth observation satellites, including the Gen-2 constellation spacecraft and upcoming Gen-3 satellites with enhanced resolution, revisit rates, shortwave infrared imaging, and intersatellite links; originally anchor customer via 2018 JV, with ongoing production at the Tukwila, Washington facility.
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LeoStella designs and manufactures small satellites for BlackSky’s Earth-observation constellation; BlackSky and LeoStella are joint-venture partners and LeoStella supplies spacecraft hardware and production services for BlackSky missions (ongoing relationship, including SDA HALO teaming).
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LeoStella was selected for the Space Development Agency HALO program and is partnered with BlackSky (BlackSky as a subcontractor) to provide small satellite manufacturing and on-orbit mission-feasibility prototypes; LeoStella's manufacturing capability enables the joint SDA HALO work with BlackSky.
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