# BlackSky

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/blacksky/  
**Website:** https://blacksky.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Blacksky Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## 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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/blacksky/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.