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Space

DIU Awards BlackSky Tactical GEOINT Contract For Gen-3 Satellite

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

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DIU Awards BlackSky Tactical GEOINT Contract For Gen-3 Satellite

BlackSky imagery on September 23, 2023 following Ukraine’s missile strike on the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Crimea (BlackSky Photo)

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…

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