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BlackSky expects the LeoStella acquisition will improve efficiencies in the production of future Gen-3 satellites.
BlackSky, then part of Spaceflight Industries, created the LeoStella joint venture with Thales Alenia Space in 2018 as part of a $150,000,000 Series C round.
LeoStella delivered 23 satellites to date, 19 of which were in orbit as of an 2024-10-24 press release.
LeoStella won business from other companies such as Loft Orbital and sought to enter defense markets.
BlackSky expects the LeoStella acquisition will improve its control over the Gen-3 supply chain and production operations.
BlackSky acquired the remaining 50% of LeoStella from Thales Alenia Space.
LeoStella opened a satellite factory in a Seattle suburb in 2019 to produce BlackSky satellites and satellites for other customers.
BlackSky completed the acquisition of the remaining stake in LeoStella on 2024-11-06, according to its 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
LeoStella has been producing Gen-3, the next generation of imaging satellites, for BlackSky.
BlackSky announced the acquisition of LeoStella during its 2024-11-07 earnings call discussing third quarter financial results.
LeoStella’s satellites have delivered revenue-generating data with more than 99 percent uptime.
LeoStella has delivered 23 satellites since its founding in 2018.
LeoStella partnered with BlackSky as a subcontractor for the HALO competitive program and is pre-qualified to work directly with the Space Development Agency to develop on-orbit mission-feasibility prototypes.
LeoStella was founded in 2018 to provide rapid and agile satellite manufacturing at scale.
The Space Development Agency selected LeoStella to support the Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (HALO) program.
The 19 HALO pool members are Airbus U.S. Space & Defense (Arlington, Virginia); Apex Technology, Inc. (Culver City, California); AST Space Mobile USA LLC (Midland, Texas); Astro Digital, U.S. Inc. (San Jose, California); Capella Space Corp. (San Francisco); CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas); Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas); Geneva Technologies Inc. (Monument, Colorado); Impulse Space, Inc. (Redondo Beach, California); Kepler Communications U.S. Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC (Arlington, Virginia); LeoStella LLC (Tukwila, Washington); Momentus Space (San Jose, California); Muon Space, Inc. (Mountain View, California); NovaWurks Inc. (Los Alamitos, California); Space Exploration Technologies Corps. (SpaceX) (Hawthorne, California); Turion Space Corp. (Irvine, California); Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (Irvine, California); and York Space Systems LLC (Denver).
Syrlinks and LeoStella have an established partnership built over the course of several collaborative programs.
LeoStella is pursuing a partnership with Syrlinks, a Safran Electronics & Defense company, to equip LeoStella’s LS-300 satellite bus with the N-SPHERE GNSS receiver.
Integrating N-SPHERE’s very high precision localization capability into the LS-300 bus provides LeoStella access to international defense customers.
LeoStella plans to build N-SPHERE into the development of its future satellite platforms.