
BlackSky Technology [BKSY] on Tuesday said that it won a “multimillion dollar” contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to manage and operate one of the company’s Generation-3 Earth imaging satellites for the Tactical GEOINT (TACGEO) program. The December 2024 contract builds on an award BlackSky announced in September 2020 with DIU that included a preliminary design review of the Gen-3 satellite for the Army TACGEO prototype program. On Feb. 18, Rocket Lab USA [RKLB] launched the first spacecraft for…