Spaceflight Industries, Inc. is an American private aerospace company based out of Herndon, Virginia, that specializes in geospatial intelligence services.

[5][6] Blacksky Global was founded in 2013 as an independent company owned by Spaceflight specializing in imaging-as-a-service.

[11][12] In March 2018, Spaceflight and Thales Alenia Space announced a joint venture, LeoStella, to build small satellites.

[2] Through a business combination with Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp. (a SPAC), in September 2021 Blacksky became a separate company quoted on the NYSE (ticker: BKSY).

[13] BlackSky started out as a subsidiary of Spaceflight Industries as its geospatial intelligence service, to offer on-demand images from a constellation of satellites.

[16] The satellite constellation was being built by LeoStella LLC, a joint venture between Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space.