BKSY — what changed in the latest 10-Q
A section-by-section comparison of BKSY's newest periodic SEC filing (10-K/10-Q) against the prior same-form filing: paragraphs added and removed per section, with verbatim excerpts. Purely a deterministic text diff — no similarity scores, no directional read, not investment advice.
Comparing 10-Q · 2026-05-07 vs the prior 10-Q · 2025-11-06
| Section | Outcome | Added | Removed | Minor | Unchanged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD&A | Text added/removed | +65 | −76 | ~23 | 11 |
| Controls & procedures | Text added/removed | +1 | −2 | ~1 | 1 |
| Legal proceedings | Text added/removed | +3 | −1 | ~2 | 2 |
| Risk factors | Text added/removed | 0 | −83 | ~1 | 0 |
| Other information | Text added/removed | 0 | 0 | ~1 | 0 |
Counts are paragraphs; added/removed means text added or removed vs the prior filing — no direction or judgement implied.
Not shown (absent or not faithfully extractable): Market risk (Item 3)
Representative excerpts
Up to 5 excerpts of about 300 characters per section, quoted verbatim from the two SEC filings.
MD&A
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
BlackSky designs, builds, owns and operates the industry’s most advanced, purpose-built commercial, real-time intelligence system that combines the power of the BlackSky Spectra® tasking and analytics software platform with our high resolution, low earth orbit ("LEO") small satellite (“smallsat” or …
Customers experience the value of BlackSky’s space-based intelligence and AI capabilities through subscription-based On-Demand and Assured product offerings. Our Mission Solutions offering allows customers the ability to acquire, own, and operate their own customized Gen-3 satellite(s) and space-to-…
having to own and operate a large constellation. Collectively, our offerings create a unified value proposition that supports national security, supply chain resilience, economic intelligence, and other critical decision-making requirements for customers worldwide.
Our revenue is generated by selling space-based intelligence & AI services through our BlackSky Spectra software platform and by providing mission solutions and advanced technology programs to strategic customers on a project basis.
•Space-Based Intelligence and AI Services Revenue: We offer high-revisit, high-resolution, satellite imaging products including dawn-to-dusk, 35 cm resolution electro-optical and nighttime imagery. Through our BlackSky Spectra software platform, customers can directly task our constellation to colle…
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2025-11-06
We own and operate one of the industry's leading high-performance low earth orbit (“LEO”) small satellite constellations. Our constellation is optimized to cost-efficiently capture imagery at high revisit rates where and when our customers need it. Because of its orbital configuration, our constella…
BlackSky’s constellation provides unique value with the ability to collect imagery and analytics from dawn-to-dusk at a higher cadence and at lower cost than traditional providers. U.S. and allied militaries rely on our services for high-revisit monitoring of airfields, vehicle depots, troop movemen…
Our proprietary constellation can produce high and very-high resolution electro-optical imagery and short-wave infrared imagery for expanded imaging capabilities in low-light or nighttime. The constellation also has advanced data communications capabilities that significantly increase the end-to-end…
Our BlackSky Spectra software platform can, among other things, process millions of observations a day from our proprietary satellite constellation and from multiple external data sources including imaging, radar and radio frequency satellites, environmental sensors, asset tracking sensors, Internet…
enabled narrative sources, and a variety of geotemporal data feeds. BlackSky Spectra employs advanced, proprietary AI and machine learning (“ML”) techniques to process, analyze, and transform these data feeds into alerts, information, and insights that our customers receive, all fully automated. Cus…
Controls & procedures
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended March 31, 2026 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2025-11-06
In November 2024, we acquired the remaining 50% of common units of BlackSky Satellite Systems, fka LeoStella, and it is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackSky. In conducting our evaluation of our internal control over financial reporting, we excluded BlackSky Satellite Systems from our evaluation…
Other than the acquisition above, there was no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended September 30, 2025 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our inte…
Legal proceedings
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
The parties attended private mediation on September 9, 2025. The parties thereafter reached an agreement on a stipulation of settlement memorializing the terms of the settlement, which was filed with the Court of Chancery on January 7, 2026 (the “Settlement”). In the Settlement, the parties agreed, …
A hearing with the Court of Chancery to consider approval of the Settlement and related matters was held on April 17, 2026. During the hearing, the Court (i) certified the consolidated actions as class actions, (ii) approved the Settlement, including the plan of allocation, (iii) approved an award o…
payable out of the settlement fund, and (iv) approved the payment of an incentive fee to plaintiffs. The Court of Chancery entered its final judgment on April 21, 2026. The costs of this case, including the Settlement, have been substantially funded from insurance proceeds and are not expected to ha…
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2025-11-06
The parties attended private mediation on September 9, 2025. The parties thereafter reached a settlement in principle, for which the parties are currently negotiating a stipulation of settlement. Any settlement will be subject to Court approval. The costs of this case, including the pending settleme…
Risk factors
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2025-11-06
operations. We may disclose changes to such factors or disclose additional factors from time to time in our future filings with the SEC.
The following risk factors supplement and should be read in conjunction with those risk factors referenced above.
Our business with various governmental entities is subject to the policies, priorities, regulations, mandates, and funding levels of such governmental entities and may be negatively impacted by any change thereto.
We have contracts with the U.S. government, and we may enter into additional contracts with the U.S. government in the future, and this subjects a large part of our business to statutes and regulations applicable to companies doing business with the government, including the Federal Acquisition Regu…
For instance, the U.S. government will often have the right to unilaterally modify contracts and always has the option to terminate contracts for convenience, and in that event, the counterparty to the contract may generally recover only its incurred or committed costs and settlement expenses and pr…
How to read Risk Factors (Item 1A) in a 10-Q
A 10-Q risk-factor section usually takes one of three forms; this page classifies it as one of:
- Pointer — the filer states there have been no material changes and points back to the annual 10-K risk factors; there is no own risk text to compare this quarter.
- Partial update — the filer carves out specific updated risks ("except as set forth below"); the excerpts show exactly what is new this quarter.
- Restated in full — the quarter carries the complete risk-factor text. When the prior quarter was only a pointer there is no prior full text to diff against, so the page flags the section as restated instead.
This describes the filing structure only — it is never a judgement on whether risk went up or down.
Source: text-level diff of the two SEC EDGAR filings · deterministic (no AI-generated content) · for reference only · not investment advice