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Space

Russian Assault on Ukraine Highlights Potential of Commercial Satellite Imagery to Predict/Head Off Conflicts

Frank Wolfe

Monday, March 21st, 2022

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Russian Assault on Ukraine Highlights Potential of Commercial Satellite Imagery to Predict/Head Off Conflicts

BlackSky has said its 12 small satellites have a revisit rate of 15 times per hour for some locations to provide high-resolution imagery (Black Sky Photo)

While Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, BlackSky [BKSY] commercial imagery satellites had picked up unusual Russian activity, including military convoys, a month earlier as part of an economic activity analysis and alerted U.S. officials. "Anticipatory analytics is what BlackSky is all about," J.R. Riordan, the company's chief revenue officer, told the Satellite 2022 conference on March 21 in Washington, D.C. "In January, we started to do some automated looks at what Ukraine was dealing with and what Russia…

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