BlackSky Technology has received its first call order, worth $1.7m, from NASA to evaluate accessibility, accuracy, quality and utility of the company’s imaging data services for the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Programme.
Commenting on the contract, Dr Patrick O’Neil, Chief Innovation Officer at BlackSky, said: “New discoveries in Earth science can be accelerated with innovative research methods and real-time dynamic data sets that keep up with the increasingly rapid pace and scale of change on our planet.”
He added: “NASA-funded investigators will have efficient on-demand access to BlackSky’s dawn-to-dusk imagery data with sophisticated search and collection flexibility through our Spectra AI tasking and analytics platform. We are honoured to serve NASA and its earth science mission.”
This call order was issued under a five-year Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Programme, a sole-source blanket purchase agreement announced in November 2021 to provide high-revisit satellite imaging data in support of NASA’s existing Earth System Science and applications development for the benefit of society.
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