BlackSky Named First Satellite Imagery Provider for SkyFi ‘Satellite Intelligence’ on Robinhood Agent Apps

The integration extends BlackSky’s commercial data distribution to retail investors through SkyFi’s AI-powered application.

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HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) is the first satellite imagery provider for SkyFi’s “Satellite Intelligence”, a Robinhood Agent App available in the coming weeks. The application integrates SkyFi’s AI analytics and Earth observation data sets built from BlackSky’s rapid-revisit, very high-resolution imagery into the Robinhood Agent Apps ecosystem, making defense-grade geospatial intelligence of facilities associated with major publicly traded companies accessible to retail investors.

A sample SkyFi Satellite Intelligence AI analytics data set shows truck and trailer counts derived from BlackSky imagery collected over Wilmington, Delaware, September 21, 2026.

“By delivering BlackSky's real-time intelligence to SkyFi for its Robinhood Agent App, we are giving retail investors actionable insights from space,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “Our dynamic monitoring constellation was purpose built to deliver rapid revisit, very high-resolution imagery within a fraction of traditional timelines. The same speed, agility and proven capability that serves defense and intelligence agencies can now empower individual market participants to monitor economic activity as it happens.”

"What investors want from a satellite is an answer: how many trucks were at a fulfillment hub last week, how much construction progress has been made at a data center build site since last month,” said Luke Fischer, CEO of SkyFi. “Until now, monitoring economic activity has largely been a capability only accessible by institutions with large data budgets. Working with Robinhood, we will put that category of satellite intelligence in front of individual customers through their agent.”

Fischer added, “We spent the past year making SkyFi callable by any AI agent over MCP, so a question goes straight to orbit and comes back as an image with a number and date on it. SkyFi delivers an image, analysis, and the time it was captured. What a customer does with it is theirs to decide. Robinhood is the first place these workflows will show up at scale.”

The integration builds on a foundational SkyFi and BlackSky partnership that is bringing tasking of BlackSky's high-cadence Gen-2 and 35-cm Gen-3 imagery collection into the SkyFi platform. Through the SkyFi "Satellite Intelligence" app, subscribers will interact naturally with AI agents to access four recurring observational data sets monitoring sites associated with Robinhood’s top traded stock symbols that track vehicle production, e-commerce fulfillment hub logistics, data center construction, and theme park attendance.

The app relies on the high-performance capabilities of BlackSky Spectra®, which automates satellite tasking, image processing, and AI feature extraction in under 90 minutes from collection. Users benefit from a highly versatile constellation capable of delivering low latency 35 cm resolution for the sharpest clarity to accurately isolate vehicles, infrastructure assets, and materials. Time diverse collection and hourly revisits capture dynamic operational activity and change throughout the day.

The SkyFi “Satellite Intelligence” Robinhood Agent App integration underscores BlackSky’s expansion into commercial data distribution, translating its core strength in time-dominant national security applications into immediate value for the broader digital economy.

About BlackSky

BlackSky is a real-time, space-based intelligence company that delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets and events in the world. BlackSky owns and operates one of the industry’s most advanced, purpose-built commercial, real-time intelligence systems that combines the power of the BlackSky Spectra® tasking and analytics software platform and our proprietary low Earth orbit satellite constellation.

With BlackSky, customers can see, understand and anticipate changes for a decisive strategic advantage at the tactical edge, and act not just fast, but first. BlackSky is trusted by some of the most demanding U.S. and international government agencies, commercial businesses, and organizations around the world. BlackSky is headquartered in Herndon, VA, and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as BKSY. To learn more, visit www.blacksky.com and follow us on X.

About SkyFi

SkyFi is an AI-first Earth intelligence platform. Users can access archived satellite imagery, task new captures, and run built-in geospatial analytics. The dual-use platform supports civilian and defense work, with flexible ordering, published pricing, MCP connections, and API access for large-scale workflows. Customers work through SkyFi's web platform, mobile app, or developer APIs, typically without a long-term contract or an in-house GIS team. Learn more at skyfi.com.

Robinhood is a trademark of Robinhood Markets, Inc. SkyFi is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by Robinhood beyond the app integration described above.

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Certain statements in this press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws with respect to BlackSky. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words “believe,” “project,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “strategy,” “future,” “opportunity,” “plan,” “may,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “will be,” “will continue,” “will likely result,” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections, and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this document. If any of these risks materialize or underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements reflect our expectations, plans, or forecasts of future events and views as of the date of this communication. We anticipate that subsequent events and developments will cause their assessments to change.

Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date, and we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. Additional risks and uncertainties are identified and discussed in BlackSky’s disclosure materials filed from time to time with the SEC which are available at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov or on BlackSky’s Investor Relations website at https://ir.blacksky.com.

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Investor Contact
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VP, Investor Relations
abonilla@blacksky.com

Media Contacts
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External Communications
BlackSky
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Evan Achiron
Head of Marketing & Communications
SkyFi
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Source: BlackSky Technology Inc.

Key Terms

earth observation data sets technical

Collections of digital measurements and images of the Earth's surface, atmosphere, or oceans gathered by satellites, aircraft, drones, or ground sensors. They can be raw or processed into products (for example optical, multispectral, hyperspectral, radar/SAR, LiDAR, thermal or meteorological files) and are characterized by spatial resolution, temporal revisit, spectral bands and geolocation accuracy; many require processing, calibration and licensing and can be limited by factors such as cloud cover, sensor resolution and revisit frequency.

satellite tasking technical

The process of sending commands and schedules to one or more satellites to collect specific data, make observations, relay communications, or carry out maneuvers. For investors, satellite tasking determines how efficiently a satellite fleet is used and how reliably customers get the data or services they paid for — like assigning delivery jobs to drivers so capacity is used, revenue opportunities are captured, and contractual obligations are met.

ai feature extraction technical

The automated process of identifying, transforming and selecting measurable attributes (features) from raw data that a machine‑learning model will use as input. Features can be simple engineered values (counts, averages, categorical encodings) or learned representations produced by algorithms (for example, embeddings from a neural network); the extraction step converts heterogeneous inputs — text, numbers, images, sensor readings — into numeric vectors that capture patterns the model can use. Because extracted features determine what information the model can learn, the methods used (manual engineering versus automated/learned approaches), the choice of inputs, and preprocessing steps directly affect model behavior, explainability and potential biases, and must be validated for the model’s intended use in regulated settings.