Organization and Business |
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| Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] | |
| Organization and Business |
1. Organization and Business
BlackSky Technology Inc. (“BlackSky” or the “Company”), headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, is a leading provider of real-time geospatial intelligence. The Company owns and operates one of the industry's leading high-performance low earth orbit small satellite constellations. The constellation is optimized to cost-efficiently capture imagery at high revisit rates where and when customers need it. BlackSky’s Spectra AI software platform processes millions of observations a day from our proprietary satellite constellation and from multiple external data sources including imaging, radar and radio frequency satellites, environmental sensors, asset tracking sensors, Internet of Things (“IoT”) connected devices, internet-enabled narrative sources, and a variety of geotemporal data feeds. Spectra AI employs advanced, proprietary artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning (“ML”) techniques to process, analyze, and transform these data feeds into alerts, information, and insights. Customers can access Spectra AI’s data and analytics through easy-to-use web services or through platform application programming interfaces.
As of March 31, 2023, BlackSky had 16 satellites in commercial operation. BlackSky has two primary operating subsidiaries, BlackSky Global LLC and BlackSky Geospatial Solutions, Inc. The Company also owns fifty percent of LeoStella LLC (“LeoStella”), its joint venture with Thales Alenia Space US Investment LLC (“Thales”). LeoStella is a vertically-integrated small satellite design and manufacturer based in Tukwila, Washington, from which the Company procures satellites to operate its business. The Company accounts for LeoStella and X-Bow Launch Systems Inc. (“X-Bow”), a space technology company specializing in additive manufacturing of solid rocket motors of which BlackSky owns less than 20%, as equity method investments (see Note 6).
On March 8, 2023, the Company completed the closing of a private placement whereby the Company issued 16.4 million shares of the Company’s Class A common stock as well as warrants to purchase up to an additional 16.4 million shares of Class A common stock. The purchase price of each share and associated warrant was $1.79. The aggregate gross proceeds to the Company from the private placement were $29.4 million before deducting the placement agent fees and other offering expenses payable by the Company. See Note 8 for information regarding the issuance of the private placement warrants.
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