BlackSky

BlackSky Technology (NYSE: BKSY) is a Herndon, Virginia headquartered real-time space-based intelligence company that operates a high-revisit Earth observation constellation and delivers AI-enhanced tactical ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) imagery and analytics to defense, intelligence, and global security customers. BlackSky's flagship product is the Spectra platform — a cloud-based intelligence hub that provides on-demand satellite tasking, sub-90-minute imagery delivery, automated AI-driven object detection and change monitoring, archived imagery access, and a secure tasking and delivery API. The company operates Gen-2 satellites at 83 cm resolution and a newer Gen-3 constellation delivering 35 cm class very-high-resolution imagery with infrared sensors, inter-satellite links, and on-board AI processing, manufactured at BlackSky's facility in Tukwila, Washington. Commercial offerings include BlackSky ON-DEMAND (flexible global tasking) and BlackSky ASSURED (dedicated, contracted persistent monitoring capacity). BlackSky's Spectra tasking and imagery API is integrated into partner platforms including Esri ArcGIS, UP42, and the STAT (Satellite Tasking API) community spec, however the API is access-controlled for vetted defense, intelligence, and enterprise customers and is not exposed as a public self-service developer portal — there is no public Spectra developer documentation site, OpenAPI specification, or open SDKs at the time of this entry. The customer revenue model is subscription-based Spectra ON-DEMAND and ASSURED contracts, Mission Solutions custom engagements, and through marketplace partners.

BlackSky publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Budgets API, Catalog API, Data management API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Earth Observation, Satellite Imagery, Remote Sensing, Geospatial Intelligence, and Space.

The BlackSky catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

BlackSky’s developer surface includes authentication, getting-started guide, documentation, API reference, YouTube channel, engineering blog, and 32 more developer resources.

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1 published contract

Earth Observation Satellite Imagery Remote Sensing Geospatial Intelligence Space ISR Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance Tasking AI Analytics Object Detection Defense MonitoringSpectraGen-3NYSE BKSY

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Intelligence Operations Management

BC-1730

Tasking

POST /v2/tasking/orders/feasibility POST /v2/tasking/orders/opportunities GET /v2/tasking/{order-id}/extensions

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 38.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.7 / 15

Access Clarity 2.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 10

Contract Governance 2.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.2 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 17.1 — up to +16.6 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 31.0 — up to +13.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Space and Satellite (operators, earth observation, ground segment)	mixed	47.4	-	-
Data Marketplaces (data providers on cloud data platforms)	mixed	47.4	-	-
ONVIF Video Analytics (video surveillance, edge cameras, computer vision)	mixed	47.4	-	-
US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP)	mixed	47.4	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

BlackSky Spectra Tasking and Imagery API

Access-controlled API behind BlackSky's Spectra platform for satellite tasking, imagery delivery and analytics. The API host api.blacksky.com answers anonymous requests with 403...

BlackSky Budgets API

The Budgets API from BlackSky — 4 operation(s) for budgets.

BlackSky Catalog API

The Catalog API from BlackSky — 3 operation(s) for catalog.

BlackSky Data management API

The Data management API from BlackSky — 8 operation(s) for data management.

BlackSky EULAs API

The EULAs API from BlackSky — 4 operation(s) for eulas.

BlackSky Geometries API

The Geometries API from BlackSky — 2 operation(s) for geometries.

BlackSky Glossary API

The Glossary API from BlackSky — 6 operation(s) for glossary.

BlackSky Orders API

The Orders API from BlackSky — 6 operation(s) for orders.

BlackSky Processing API

The Processing API from BlackSky — 7 operation(s) for processing.

BlackSky Tasking API

The Tasking API from BlackSky — 8 operation(s) for tasking.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Blacksky Context

120 classes · 164 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

BlackSky API Rules

71 rules · 55 errors 7 warnings 9 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 45

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AcquisitionDateExtensionRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AcquisitionDateExtensionResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

areaJobPrice

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BudgetResponse

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BudgetSettingsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BudgetUsageResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionFullAggregate

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateGeometryRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateV2OrderRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateV2OrderResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataProductAggregate

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EstimateV2OrderResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EulaDocumentPatchRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EulaDocumentResponse

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EulaResponse

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

execute

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FeasibilityRequirementsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GeometryResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

inputs

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ItemCollection

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Item

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobPricinginputs

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LandingPage

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListTaskingOrderOpportunitiesV2Response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderPatchRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderV2Response

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrdersV2PageResponse

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PagableGeometryResponse

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PageOfBudgets

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PageOfCollections

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PageOfDataProducts

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PageOfEulaDocuments

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PageOfEulas

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PageOfProviders

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PatchGeometryRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PreviewResource

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

process

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProviderWithRoles

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryablesResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchPayload

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchRequestDto

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StacResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Collection

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

statusInfo

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TaskingQuotation

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Blacksky Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Blacksky Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Blacksky Scopes

3 scopes · clientCredentials/authorizationCode

3 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Blacksky Agentic Access

57 operations · 19 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

TaskingPortal

TaskingPortal

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

IntegrationEdges

IntegrationEdges

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 9

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Newsroom

Newsroom

InvestorRelations

Careers

Newsletter

Partner

Twitter

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

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Other 8

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

Hosts

Vendors

Technology

Offerings

Spectra

Company

Leadership

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: blacksky
name: BlackSky
description: 'BlackSky Technology (NYSE: BKSY) is a Herndon, Virginia headquartered real-time space-based intelligence company
  that operates a high-revisit Earth observation constellation and delivers AI-enhanced tactical ISR (intelligence, surveillance,
  and reconnaissance) imagery and analytics to defense, intelligence, and global security customers. BlackSky''s flagship
  product is the Spectra platform — a cloud-based intelligence hub that provides on-demand satellite tasking, sub-90-minute
  imagery delivery, automated AI-driven object detection and change monitoring, archived imagery access, and a secure tasking
  and delivery API. The company operates Gen-2 satellites at 83 cm resolution and a newer Gen-3 constellation delivering 35
  cm class very-high-resolution imagery with infrared sensors, inter-satellite links, and on-board AI processing, manufactured
  at BlackSky''s facility in Tukwila, Washington. Commercial offerings include BlackSky ON-DEMAND (flexible global tasking)
  and BlackSky ASSURED (dedicated, contracted persistent monitoring capacity). BlackSky''s Spectra tasking and imagery API
  is integrated into partner platforms including Esri ArcGIS, UP42, and the STAT (Satellite Tasking API) community spec, however
  the API is access-controlled for vetted defense, intelligence, and enterprise customers and is not exposed as a public self-service
  developer portal — there is no public Spectra developer documentation site, OpenAPI specification, or open SDKs at the time
  of this entry. The customer revenue model is subscription-based Spectra ON-DEMAND and ASSURED contracts, Mission Solutions
  custom engagements, and through marketplace partners.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: gated
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/blacksky.png
tags:
- Earth Observation
- Satellite Imagery
- Remote Sensing
- Geospatial Intelligence
- Space
- ISR
- Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance
- Tasking
- AI Analytics
- Object Detection
- Defense
- Monitoring
- Spectra
- Gen-3
- NYSE BKSY
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/blacksky/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: IntegrationEdges
  url: integrations/blacksky-integration-edges.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/blacksky-capability-edges.yml
  name: BlackSky Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/blacksky-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/blacksky-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/blacksky-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/blacksky-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/blacksky-data-model.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/blacksky-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/blacksky-scopes.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/blacksky-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/blacksky-conformance.yml
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.sa.up42.com/getting-started/account-management
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.sa.up42.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.up42.com/reference/overview
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/blacksky-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/blacksky-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/blacksky-vendors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/blacksky-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://blacksky.com
- type: Technology
  url: https://blacksky.com/technology/
- type: Offerings
  url: https://blacksky.com/offerings/
- type: Spectra
  url: https://blacksky.com/technology/
- type: TaskingPortal
  url: https://tasking.blacksky.com
- type: Company
  url: https://blacksky.com/company/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://blacksky.com/news/
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://ir.blacksky.com/
- type: Careers
  url: https://blacksky.com/company/careers/
- type: Contact
  url: https://blacksky.com/company/contact-us/
- type: Newsletter
  url: https://info.blacksky.com/subscribe
- type: Partner
  url: https://docs.up42.com/data/blacksky
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/blackskyinc
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blackskyinc
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@BlackSkyInc
- type: Blog
  url: https://blacksky.com/insights/
- type: Leadership
  url: https://blacksky.com/company/leadership/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://blacksky.com/privacy-statement/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://blacksky.com/blacksky-terms-of-use/
- type: Login
  url: https://login.blacksky.com/
apis:
- aid: blacksky:spectra-api
  name: BlackSky Spectra Tasking and Imagery API
  description: Access-controlled API behind BlackSky's Spectra platform for satellite tasking, imagery delivery and analytics.
    The API host api.blacksky.com answers anonymous requests with 403 and the tasking portal redirects to login.blacksky.com;
    no public documentation or contract is published.
  humanURL: https://tasking.blacksky.com
  baseURL: https://api.blacksky.com
  tags:
  - Satellite Imagery
  - Tasking
  properties:
  - type: Login
    url: https://login.blacksky.com/
- aid: blacksky:blacksky-budgets-api
  name: BlackSky Budgets API
  description: The Budgets API from BlackSky — 4 operation(s) for budgets.
  humanURL: https://tasking.blacksky.com
  baseURL: https://api.blacksky.com
  tags:
  - Budgets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/blacksky-budgets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-budget-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-budget-usage-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-budget-settings-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-page-of-budgets-schema.json
- aid: blacksky:blacksky-catalog-api
  name: BlackSky Catalog API
  description: The Catalog API from BlackSky — 3 operation(s) for catalog.
  humanURL: https://tasking.blacksky.com
  baseURL: https://api.blacksky.com
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/blacksky-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-search-request-dto-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-stac-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-preview-resource-schema.json
- aid: blacksky:blacksky-data-management-api
  name: BlackSky Data management API
  description: The Data management API from BlackSky — 8 operation(s) for data management.
  humanURL: https://tasking.blacksky.com
  baseURL: https://api.blacksky.com
  tags:
  - Data Management
  tags_raw:
  - Data management
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/blacksky-data-management-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-landing-page-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-queryables-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-search-payload-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-item-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-staccollection-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-item-collection-schema.json
- aid: blacksky:blacksky-eulas-api
  name: BlackSky EULAs API
  description: The EULAs API from BlackSky — 4 operation(s) for eulas.
  humanURL: https://tasking.blacksky.com
  baseURL: https://api.blacksky.com
  tags:
  - EULAs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/blacksky-eulas-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-eula-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-eula-document-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-page-of-eula-documents-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-page-of-eulas-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-eula-document-patch-request-schema.json
- aid: blacksky:blacksky-geometries-api
  name: BlackSky Geometries API
  description: The Geometries API from BlackSky — 2 operation(s) for geometries.
  humanURL: https://tasking.blacksky.com
  baseURL: https://api.blacksky.com
  tags:
  - Geometries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/blacksky-geometries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-geometry-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-pagable-geometry-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-create-geometry-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-patch-geometry-request-schema.json
- aid: blacksky:blacksky-glossary-api
  name: BlackSky Glossary API
  description: The Glossary API from BlackSky — 6 operation(s) for glossary.
  humanURL: https://tasking.blacksky.com
  baseURL: https://api.blacksky.com
  tags:
  - Glossary
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/blacksky-glossary-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-collection-full-aggregate-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-page-of-collections-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-data-product-aggregate-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-page-of-data-products-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-page-of-providers-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-provider-with-roles-schema.json
- aid: blacksky:blacksky-orders-api
  name: BlackSky Orders API
  description: The Orders API from BlackSky — 6 operation(s) for orders.
  humanURL: https://tasking.blacksky.com
  baseURL: https://api.blacksky.com
  tags:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/blacksky-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-create-v2-order-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-order-patch-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-estimate-v2-order-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-create-v2-order-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-order-v2-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-orders-v2-page-response-schema.json
- aid: blacksky:blacksky-processing-api
  name: BlackSky Processing API
  description: The Processing API from BlackSky — 7 operation(s) for processing.
  humanURL: https://tasking.blacksky.com
  baseURL: https://api.blacksky.com
  tags:
  - Processing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/blacksky-processing-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-status-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-execute-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-inputs-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-job-pricinginputs-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-area-job-price-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-process-schema.json
- aid: blacksky:blacksky-tasking-api
  name: BlackSky Tasking API
  description: The Tasking API from BlackSky — 8 operation(s) for tasking.
  humanURL: https://tasking.blacksky.com
  baseURL: https://api.blacksky.com
  tags:
  - Tasking
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/blacksky-tasking-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-create-v2-order-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-acquisition-date-extension-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-tasking-quotation-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-list-tasking-order-opportunities-v2-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-feasibility-requirements-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blacksky-acquisition-date-extension-request-schema.json
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v5
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: customer-only-docs
  detail: The Spectra API host api.blacksky.com returns 403 to anonymous requests and tasking.blacksky.com 302s to login.blacksky.com;
    BlackSky publishes no developer docs or contract, and the only public spec found (developer.up42.com) is UP42's own reseller
    API, not BlackSky's.
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.blacksky.com/
    status: 403
  - url: https://tasking.blacksky.com/
    status: 302
  - url: https://blacksky.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-10-20'

BlackSky API — frequently asked questions

Does BlackSky have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from BlackSky, including BlackSky Spectra Tasking and Imagery API, BlackSky Budgets API and BlackSky Catalog API, and 7 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the BlackSky API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 9 OpenAPI specifications for BlackSky, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the BlackSky API?

BlackSky uses bearer-token authentication (http/oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Blacksky Authentication.

Is the BlackSky API ready for AI agents?

BlackSky has a Kin Score of 38.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 39.0 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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