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Satellogic Inc.

For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 26, 2025.

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FY2024 · Filed Mar 26, 2025

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS

History and Development of the Company

We were incorporated under the laws of the BVI on June 29, 2021, solely for the purpose of effectuating the Merger, which was consummated on January 25, 2022. See “Merger Transaction” below for further details of the Merger. The Domestication was consummated on March 26, 2025. See “Domestication” below for further details.

We own no material assets other than our interests in Nettar and do not operate any business other than through Nettar, our wholly owned subsidiary. Nettar is a BVI business company incorporated in the BVI as a company limited by shares. See Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and Capital Resources”for a discussion of Nettar’s principal capital expenditures for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023. Except for capital expenditures in the ordinary course of business, there are no other material capital expenditures or divestitures currently in progress as of the date of this Report.

Nettar was the holding company of the Satellogic Group (the “Group”) prior to the Merger and was incorporated on October 7, 2014, under the laws of the BVI as an International Business Company.

The mailing address of our principal executive office is 210 Delburg Street, Davidson, NC 28036, US and our telephone number is 01 704-894-4482. Our principal website address is www.satellogic.com. The information contained on, or accessible through, our website is not incorporated by reference into this Report, and you should not consider it a part of this Report.

Our strategy consists of three unique business lines: Asset Monitoring, Constellation-as-a-Service (“CaaS”), and Space Systems. Our Asset Monitoring business involves both government and commercial customers tasking our satellites around the world with monitoring assets and keeping up with their changing reality. Our CaaS business offers governments around the world the ability to control satellites on top of specific areas of interest. Our Space Systems business involves satellite sales and support, to meet the needs of customers interested in our technology and capability that also have a need or desire to own the satellites being utilized to collect data.

On May 6, 2022, we entered into an Investment Agreement with Officina Stellare S.p.A. (“OS”), a company engaged in the design and production of telescopes and opto-mechanical and aerospace instrumentation for ground and space-based applications, to purchase 5% of OS’s outstanding common shares for $3.7 million. Additionally, OS issued 524,715 stock warrants, giving us the right to convert each warrant into a single common share over a period of up to 36 months. Emiliano Kargieman, our Chief Executive Officer, was appointed to the OS board of directors. The investment was completed on September 30, 2022. OS is also a supplier of telescopes to the Company.

In January 2021, we signed a Rideshare Multi-Launch Agreement with SpaceX, our preferred rideshare launch provider, and in April 2022, we secured launch capacity for our next 68 launches with SpaceX via the SpaceX Agreement. At December 31, 2024, we had 46 launch slots remaining and we continue to work with SpaceX to schedule upcoming satellite launches.

Merger Transaction

On January 25, 2022 (the “Closing Date”), we consummated the Transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of July 5, 2021 (the “Merger Agreement” ), by and among Satellogic, CF V, a Delaware corporation, now known as “Satellogic V Inc., Ganymede Merger Sub 1 Inc., a BVI business company incorporated in the BVI as a company limited by shares and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Satellogic and Ganymede Merger Sub 2 Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Satellogic.

The Merger resulted in cash proceeds of $168 million, after Transaction expenses and debt repayment, through the contribution of cash held in CF V’s trust account, net of redemptions by CF V’s public stockholders, and a concurrent PIPE offering (“2022 PIPE”) led by SoftBank’s SBLA Advisers Corp. and CF&Co., among other institutional investors, together with the Liberty Investment. See Note 4 (Reverse Recapitalization) to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional details.

On January 26, 2022, our Class A common stock began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “SATL” and our warrants began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “SATLW”.

Domestication

On March 26, 2025, we filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware a certificate of corporate domestication and a certificate of incorporation of a Delaware corporation with the name “Satellogic Inc.”, as well as filed with the Registrar of Corporate Affairs in the BVI a notice of the Company’s continuance out of the BVI, pursuant to which we domesticated and are continuing as a Delaware corporation. On the effective date of the Domestication, each of our BVI Ordinary Shares and BVI Warrants automatically converted by operation of law, on a one-for-one basis, into shares of Class A common stock, Class B common stock and warrants to purchase Class A common stock, respectively.

Company Overview

We were founded in 2010 to help solve some of the greatest challenges of our time: resource utilization and distribution. From tradeoffs between food, energy and water supplies, to monitoring the impact of natural disasters, global health and humanitarian crises in the midst of a looming climate emergency, access to a continually refreshed source of global, high-quality data is critical to confronting some of the world’s most crucial issues. We are committed to creating a fully automated and searchable EO catalog, and we believe we are uniquely positioned to provide the data that is critical to better inform decision-making aimed at addressing these challenges.

We are the first vertically integrated geospatial company, and we are building the first scalable, fully automated EO platform with the ability, when scaled, to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution, providing accessible and affordable solutions for our customers. We plan to democratize access to geospatial data by providing planetary insights at what we believe to be the lowest cost in the industry, ultimately driving better decision-making across a broad range of industries including agriculture, forestry, energy, financial services, and cartography.

We have created a highly scalable, vertically integrated and competitive operating model. We design the core components that go into developing and manufacturing our satellites to be mission specific. We manufacture many of our components, but we also partner with third parties to manufacture certain other components to our design specifications. We assemble, integrate and test the components and satellites in our facilities. This vertical integration provides a significant cost advantage, enabling us to produce and launch satellites for less than one-tenth the cost of our competitors on average. Additionally, we own all our key intellectual property, and our patented technology allows us to capture approximately 10x more imagery than our competitors on average. Taken together, we are achieving over 60x better unit economics than our closest peers in the NewSpace (as defined below) sector and more than 100x better unit economics than legacy competitors. Additionally, we believe we are well-positioned to compete effectively in the existing EO market that is currently supply-constrained and consists primarily of government and defense and intelligence (“D&I”) customers. At December 31, 2024, we had 23 commercial satellites in orbit. As of the date of this Report, we have 22 satellites in orbit, of which 20 are operational and two are being used for testing. Over the near term, we will take a measured approach to expanding our constellation, with our long term vision to reach a constellation size of approximately 200 satellites and to have the capability to conduct daily remaps of the entire planet.

Our strategy is focused along three distinct business lines: Asset Monitoring, CaaS, and Space Systems. These business lines will allow us to serve the existing EO market and begin to democratize access to a host of new EO customers.

In August 2023, we strategically realigned our business in an effort to capture high value opportunities in the U.S. market, focusing resources on what we believe to be our highest growth opportunities, while sustaining core customers and operating a lean organization. As part of this strategic realignment, we consummated the Domestication.

We continue to expect that our Asset Monitoring business will represent the most predictable revenue stream, and we anticipate that it will be among the primary drivers of the business going forward. Every day, both government and commercial customers task our satellites around the world to monitor assets and keep up with their changing reality. D&I customers look at ports, airfields or build-up of military equipment; mining companies monitor the environmental impact of their operations; and insurance companies are interested in building baselines and quickly assessing property damage as it occurs. With the largest available sub-meter capacity, high quality imagery and superior unit economics, we can support a growing number of customers around the world.

Our CaaS business offers governments around the world the ability to control satellites above specific areas of interest. We anticipate that our CaaS line of business will, over time, provide us with a strong recurring-revenue base in the government and D&I market.

Our Space Systems business is effectively satellite sales and support for customers that have a need or desire to own the satellites being utilized to capture imagery. As such, Space Systems leverages our ability to quickly build and launch high quality, sub-meter satellites at a low cost for these customers. We have built a vertically integrated satellite manufacturing capability that is critical in achieving our low-CAPEX cost and ultimately reaching our unit-economic targets for our Asset Monitoring business. Vertical integration enables us to manage our supply chain and navigate evolving global supply issues and challenges with minimal adverse impact to our satellite manufacturing schedule. Our fast satellite build-to-launch cycles can progress from purchase order to commissioning in orbit in as little as eight months.

Information (in thousands) about our revenue by geography is as follows:

Year Ended December 31,
20242023
Revenue by geography (1)
North America$7,904$3,475
Europe2,6312,113
Asia Pacific2,3224,422
South America13$64
Total revenue$12,870$10,074

(1)Revenue by geography is based on the geographical location of the customer.

Recent Developments

Multi-Year Satellite Imagery Contract

On February 6, 2025, the Company entered into an agreement with Telespazio Brasil, a subsidiary of Telespazio S.p.A., pursuant to which the Company will provide low latency satellite imagery for the Brazilian Air Force for defense and security operations within the Brazilian territory.

Sales Agreement

On December 20, 2024, the Company entered into a Controlled Equity Sales Agreement (the “Sales Agreement”) with CF&Co. (the “Sales Agent”), acting as the Company’s sales agent, pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, from time to time, through the Sales Agent, its Class A common stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share, having an aggregate offering amount of up to $50,000,000. On December 20, 2024, pursuant to the Sales Agreement, the Company filed a prospectus supplement, including an accompanying base prospectus, dated December 20, 2024, forming a part of its effective registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-283719), initially filed with the SEC on December 10, 2024.

On February 12, 2025, the Company entered into an Amended and Restated Sales Agreement (the “Amended Sales Agreement”) with CF&Co. and Northland Securities, Inc. (“Northland” and, together with CF&Co., the “Sales Agents” and, each, a “Sales Agent”), pursuant to which Northland was added as an additional Sales Agent in connection with the Company’s offer and sale, from time to time, through the Sales Agents, of its Class A common stock, having an aggregate offering amount of up to $50,000,000. The Amended Sales Agreement did not increase the amount of Class A common stock that may be offered and sold by the Company under the original Sales Agreement entered into between the Company and CF&Co. on December 20, 2024. On February 13, 2025, pursuant to the Amended Sales Agreement, the Company filed a supplement, dated February 12, 2025, to the prospectus supplement, forming a part of its effective registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-283719), initially filed with the SEC on December 10, 2024.

The Company intends to amend and restate the Amended Sales Agreement with the Sales Agents in order to replace references to BVI Class A Ordinary Shares with references to Class A common stock, along with other conforming changes to reflect the consummation of the Domestication.

Tasking Partnership

On December 11, 2024, the Company entered into a tasking, data licensing and distribution agreement with Maxar Intelligence (Maxar), pursuant to which the Company granted Maxar exclusive rights to task the Company’s high-revisit constellation and use its cost-effective satellite imagery to support national security missions for the U.S. government and select U.S. partners internationally.

PIPE Financing Transaction

On December 8, 2024, the Company entered into a Share Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with the Purchaser, pursuant to which the Company issued in a private placement 3,571,429 shares of Class A common stock to the Purchaser at a purchase price of $2.80 per share. The closing of the private placement occurred on December 10, 2024 and the Company received gross proceeds of $10,000,000.

Board of Director Changes

On November 25, 2024, Howard Lutnick, a member of our Board, notified the Company of his decision to voluntarily resign from the Board, effective immediately. Mr. Lutnick’s resignation followed his recent nomination and subsequent confirmation to serve on the cabinet of the President of the United States as the Commerce Secretary. Mr. Lutnick’s decision to resign was not a result of any disagreement with the Company, the Company’s management or the Board. In connection with Mr. Lutnick’s resignation, the Company reduced the size of its Board from nine directors to eight directors.

On September 4, 2024, we announced the election of Kelly Kennedy to the Board as a Class III Director, and Ms. Kennedy was subsequently reelected by stockholders at the Company’s annual stockholders meeting on December 20, 2024, with a term expiring at the Company’s next annual meeting. Ms. Kennedy serves as chair of the Audit Committee of the Board.

The Company also announced the retirement of Bradley Halverson from his position as a Class III Director of the Board and as Chair of the Audit Committee. Mr. Halverson’s decision to retire was not a result of any disagreement with the Company, the Company’s management or the Board.

NASA’s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program

In September 2024, we announced that we were selected as one of eight recipients of NASA's Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program (CSDA) On-Ramp1 Multiple Award contract, with a maximum cumulative value of $476 million for all award winners.

Under the CSDA On-Ramp1, Satellogic will provide NASA with high-resolution multispectral imagery under a multiple-award contract in effect until November 15, 2028. The program aims to offer NASA a cost-effective solution for augmenting or complementing the Earth observation data gathered by the agency, other U.S. government entities, and international agencies. We believe this data will be pivotal in efforts to understand and mitigate the effects of climate change, monitor environmental trends, and improve various applications that benefit humanity.

Market Overview

Existing terrestrial methods and high-resolution satellites utilized for obtaining EO imagery have several critical shortcomings and have had limited commercial applicability to date. The manner in which actionable data is collected is extremely inefficient. Whether by helicopters, drones, planes, Internet of Things (“IoT”) sensor networks, or what we most commonly do, the boots-on-the-ground data collection today is extremely inefficient and very costly and not scalable.

Satellites in sun-synchronous LEO are, in fact, particularly well-positioned to collect data over the surface of the earth. A satellite will orbit the planet every ninety minutes, and the earth is spinning under it, so a single satellite will eventually remap the entire surface of the earth—adding a constellation of these satellites increases the frequency of remaps.

The existing high-resolution EO satellites, our legacy competitors, are not well-suited to do this because the technology they are utilizing is simply too expensive and the economic use case, we believe, is not viable for broad, commercial application. Our legacy competitors must task their satellites for specific customer demands and price the imagery relative to the cost of the underlying satellite, which is quite expensive. Thus, the existing EO market is relatively small and generally limited to governments and D&I customers such as the United States Government (USG) and other prominent government D&I agencies with space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) requirements, that can afford to pay the price charged by our competitors.

We operate in the “NewSpace” sector, which refers to the increased commercialization and privatization of the space sector. There are a few NewSpace companies trying to build satellites for imaging at a low cost, but they essentially fall into two categories: they either do not have sufficient resolution or they are forced to effectively trade resolution for capacity. In either case, they are limited in terms of image capture and thereby unable to remap the entire surface of the earth at high resolution with unit economics that are competitive with our own. We believe we have addressed these problems through technology innovation and vertical integration.

Over the long term, we plan to leverage our superior unit economics and put enough satellites in orbit to remap the entire surface of the earth in high-resolution on a daily basis and, in doing so, we expect to completely reshape the business model for high resolution EO as well as a number of adjacent or alternative technologies being utilized today that are considerably less efficient (e.g., drones, helicopters, planes). By remapping the entire world every day, we will be able to deliver our data to customers at near zero marginal cost. This will effectively allow us to price our data based upon the value we create in each customer’s value chain as opposed to the current model whereby the pricing is inextricably linked to the high cost of the satellite. This is what we believe will allow us to expand the market for high resolution EO and tap into an estimated $140 billion market opportunity.

Beyond the EO market opportunity we continue to focus on addressing the growing market of satellite manufacturing and sales. This global market opportunity spans across both government and commercial organizations. Within the government segment, the opportunity covers both civil and unclassified defense programs. Research suggests there are approximately 80 countries and approximately 80 commercial organizations with investments into EO related programs. A leading research firm assessed the market value of global satellite manufacturing and sales to be approximately $76 billion between 2021 - 2030.

Competitive Advantage

We see the satellite imagery industry as mainly divided between incumbents and next generation companies offering electro-optical Earth imagery from space-based assets. Incumbent companies in the satellite imagery industry traditionally maintain a small fleet of large, expensive satellites. These satellites operate on a one-to-one tasking model, meaning each satellite is dedicated to fulfilling a single specific request at a time. These high-cost satellites typically capture very high-resolution imagery, primarily catering to the needs of national governments and established sectors that have traditionally relied on satellite imagery.

In contrast, we seek to develop and deploy satellites that are significantly less expensive and physically smaller than those used by the incumbent providers. We believe this enables us to rapidly and substantially grow the number of satellites we operate in Earth's orbit, establishing large constellations capable of frequent and comprehensive Earth observation at a fraction of the cost.

We believe that we are well-positioned to compete with legacy satellite providers and NewSpace geospatial data providers. Our competitive advantages revolve around unit economics, design and technology, vertically integrated structure, efficient build-to-launch cycle, and high frequency remaps. Key elements of our competitive advantages include the following:

Superior Unit Economics. With estimated 60 to 120 times better unit economics than our competitors, we plan to put enough satellites in orbit to collect data over the entire surface of the planet continuously, first with weekly and eventually daily remaps, and deliver this data to customers at near zero marginal costs. By delivering data to customers at near zero marginal cost, we expect to be able to price our services based on the value that we create for our customers within their value chain and not on the cost of data acquisition (e.g., satellite cost, launch). This is a critical element of our business model and what we believe to be a paradigm shift in high resolution EO imagery that is made possible by our superior unit economics.

Superior design and technology. The principal challenge associated with collecting well-exposed, high-resolution imagery from orbit is that the satellite is moving at approximately 27,000 kilometers per hour (or seven kilometers per second). Legacy satellite operators have solved this problem by using a telescope with a very large aperture that allows them to collect well-exposed images that have no blur. These satellites are extremely expensive to build and launch. Conversely, our NewSpace competitors attempt to solve this problem with a small platform relying on a series of methods that will ultimately drive a trade-off between the resolution achieved and the capture capability. Our solution to this challenge is centered around our patented and unique camera design that utilizes adaptive optics allowing us to collect approximately 10 times more data from orbit than any of our competitors using a smaller aperture. Additionally, our camera design has afforded us the ability to create a compact satellite design resulting in three times lower mass and lower launch costs when compared to one of our NewSpace competitors.

Vertically integrated. We are a vertically integrated company, and we design our satellites and all of their subsystems, including onboard computers, propulsion system, telescopes, cameras, radios, sensors and actuators. We manufacture many of our components, but we also partner with third parties to manufacture certain other components to our design specifications. We then assemble, integrate and test the components and satellites in our facilities. By designing every core component with our specific mission in mind (as compared to sourcing non-mission specific components built for a wide range of applications as our competitors do), we lower the cost of our materials by a factor of 10x. Our cost to deploy a high-resolution imaging satellite in orbit today, including launch costs, is approximately $1 million compared to our NewSpace competitors’ average cost of approximately $10 million with an average of 10x less capacity.

Efficient build-to-launch cycle. Our fast build-to-launch cycles allow us to go from a signed contract to a satellite delivered in orbit in less than eight months, a first in this industry. The fast turn-around and the appealing technical characteristics of our satellites paired with their low cost create a valuable alternative for customers looking to increase their in-orbit capacity quickly, or for customers looking to build an inventory of assets to lower response times in the face of emergency.

High frequency remaps. When we reach weekly remaps, we expect to provide approximately 80% of the global supply of high-resolution imagery in the market at near zero marginal cost, effectively consolidating supply, which will allow us to also consolidate demand on our platform. We believe this will create a significant disincentive for any competitor to build infrastructure to do the same. In addition, we believe that the archive of everything that is happening on the planet on a daily basis, in high resolution, will allow us, our partners and customers to train better artificial intelligence (“AI”) algorithms. By doing so, we expect to serve customers on a larger scale which will allow for the improvement of these algorithms at a faster pace, thereby creating a network effect on the accumulation of archived data that we plan to build in our catalog.

We believe that these characteristics—the near zero marginal cost for data distribution, the consolidation of demand on the network and the network effects on the accumulation of data in our catalog—will uniquely position us to capitalize on the significant total addressable market (“TAM”) opportunities.

Growth Strategies

We plan to democratize access to geospatial data by providing planetary insights at what we believe to be the lowest cost in the industry, which we expect will ultimately drive better decision-making across a broad range of industries. Our growth strategy is driven by the following objectives:

Leverage expertise in low-cost manufacturing of EO satellites for sale into high-growth government markets across Asia, Africa, Middle East and South America.

Pursue opportunities within the U.S. market, including competing for USG and allied contracts, which we believe we are well positioned for following the Domestication.

Expand the high resolution EO market and democratize access to data for the commercial market.

Continue investment in R&D to innovate product offerings and satellite re-design.

Leverage our modular satellite design, multiple-payload systems, scaled manufacturing and satellite operations to deliver novel data streams and services from orbit.

Pursue strategic acquisitions and partnerships to enhance our go-to-market ("GTM") strategy, while seeking complementary technologies and further vertical integration within our supply chain.

Through our products and service offerings, we intend to derive substantially all of our near-term revenues by providing EO services, satellite sales and related services to governments. In the longer term, we intend to expand our operations to serve commercial customers in a variety of markets and industries.

Existing high-resolution EO market (Government and D&I)

The receipt of government and D&I contracts is part of our growth strategy. The existing high-resolution EO market is predominantly composed of government and D&I customers. We can serve these customers today with our fleet of 22 satellites currently in orbit, of which 20 satellites are currently operational, and two are being used for testing. The existing high-resolution EO market is supply-limited as a consequence of global capacity constraints and increasing demand. As a result, we have been successful in building a strong pipeline for the existing EO market. Our pipeline consists of contracts which are in negotiations or early discussions, and we can offer no assurances that such negotiations or discussions will result in a signed contract or any revenue. Many of these customers tend to buy through large, multi-year contracts and typically through a multi-step, outbound sales cycle.

We believe that most of these customers are interested in data that can be delivered with low latency and very high quality across our three lines of business, which we are well positioned to deliver.

We are approaching this market through direct sales as well as a network of distributors and partnerships in strategic regions across the globe. While we expect this market will reflect the majority of our revenue for the next two to three years and provide operational cash flow to assist in financing our constellation, we expect that our commercial platform will ultimately be significantly larger as we scale up our constellation due simply to its larger TAM.

Space Systems, our line of business which we believe presents a substantial growth opportunity, is designed to enable us to sell our satellites directly to select customers to whom satellite ownership is important. We believe our strong intellectual property and technology portfolio, fast build-to-launch cycles, and lower cost of ownership, provides an attractive offer for our customers looking to increase their in-orbit capacity quickly, or for customers looking to build an inventory of assets to lower response times in the face of an emergency. Although this line of business has inherent risks as discussed in Item 1A. “Risk Factors,” we believe that Space Systems will enhance our ability to effectively compete in the existing EO market.

Commercial Platform

Our longer-term strategy focuses on our commercial platform, which we expect will take full advantage of our constellation’s ability to capture high-resolution imagery at near zero marginal cost and build a catalog of the entire planet beginning with monthly remaps and progress first towards weekly remaps and, ultimately, daily remaps. This is a Software as a Service (“SaaS”) platform through which we plan to offer customers the ability to purchase imagery and data analytics specific to their vertical market (e.g., agriculture, forestry, energy, financial services, cartography). We expect our SaaS economics will allow us to charge customers according to the value our data provides within each customer’s value chain, whether that is a multi-billion-dollar energy company or a farmer in the Midwestern region of the United States. We expect this platform will allow us to expand the current addressable market for high-resolution EO data and unlock a significant TAM opportunity. As our business develops, we expect that our governmental and D&I customers will become a smaller percentage of our customer base and, over the long-term, that the commercial platform will constitute a significant amount of our revenues.

We have conducted a number of pilot trials that we believe validate our solutions in a variety of verticals, including agriculture, forestry, energy and infrastructure. These trials demonstrated that our solutions can successfully replace other sources of data being provided by airplanes, drones, helicopters, IoT sensor networks, etc. and that these customers are willing to purchase the data we collect at an attractive price point for our solutions. We have used this information from these pilot trials to identify an immediately addressable market which we believe will be approximately $40 billion in size once we reach weekly remaps.

Commercial Market Opportunities

Use cases for this immediately addressable market might include:

Monitoring hydroelectric plants in high frequency to build predictive models of energy output as well as drainage in the reservoir from the surrounding basin

Oil field and pipeline monitoring

Precision agriculture

Supply chain management (agriculture)

Tree counting (forestry)

Crop management (agriculture & forestry)

Planning for renewable energy projects

Precise estimation of commodities output

Yield prediction and harvesting (agriculture & forestry)

Energy output

Mineral output

Geospatial risk modeling (e.g., flood, drought, fire, environmental)

Real time impact assessment, disaster management and claims estimation (e.g., storm damage, earthquakes, forest fires, oil spills)

Real time planetary health

Sea level, temperature and acidity

Fractures in polar ice caps

Global temperature

Water distribution

Monitoring illegal activities (e.g., deforestation, mining, poaching, smuggling)

We believe the key to unlocking this TAM lies in the ability to monitor the planet at both high resolution and high frequency and deliver this data to customers at the right price. Overall, this is how we see the market growing as we increase the frequency of data that once scaled, we expect to deliver at near zero marginal costs.

We plan to deliver our commercial data through our self-service platform and other third-party platforms via a subscription that reflects the end use of the data (vertical) and intrinsic value (geography, freshness) of the data, bundling analytics-ready data with vertical-specific semantic layers to enable quick integration of the data into our customers’ and partners’ processes, thereby enabling faster adoption. We believe this strategy will allow customers to quickly advance their own geospatial analytics capacity by leveraging a productized version of our data layers and data platform. Beyond raw imagery data and other sources of data that we can collect from our satellites, we are building a catalog of geospatial layers from other sources, and processing and augmenting all of these to produce a growing set of derived layers, with increasing complexity and value-add, that are made available as data-services to our customers. Our approach will allow us, our partners and customers to prototype and iterate on geospatial AI/Machine Learning models trained on our unique datasets, and then quickly roll out results into production systems. We intend to commercialize this platform and allow clients to use it to address their needs on their own.

Target commercial customers for our data are companies with their own internal geospatial analytics needs and capabilities as well as value-added service providers serving corporate and government customers worldwide from marketplaces to analytics providers. Subscriptions to the platform will be driven by the demand for our unique data set of high-resolution daily captures and derived insights. We plan to combine direct sales efforts to large customers in target verticals with partnerships with geospatial service providers and imagery data distributors to reach the long tail of geospatial data and analytics consumers. We expect that as our constellation grows and affordable high-resolution imagery and its derivatives become more frequent, new applications and markets will be created.

Driven by our unique, sub-meter resolution, we believe our data sets when scaled will cover up to 80% of the requirements of our target markets, and we expect our commercial platform to become the industry standard for consuming and implementing geospatial analysis, which will give us the leverage to consolidate an increasing number of data sources from third-parties (e.g., satellites, drones, IoT data) and our own data generation efforts (from multi-spectral imagery to hyperspectral imagery to spectrum monitoring and data collection).

Seasonality

We have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, seasonality in our business and fluctuations in our operating results due to customer behavior, buying patterns and usage-based contracts. For example, we typically have customers who increase their usage of our data services when they need more frequent data monitoring over broader areas during peak agricultural seasons, during natural disasters or other global events, or when commodity prices are at certain levels.

Operations

Overview

Design through launch

Fast iteration between product innovation, production and launch

Owning the design to manufacturing helps eliminate third-party costs

In-orbit operations

Own and control data capture of the earth’s surface

Utilize third-party ground station infrastructure for global coverage and to reduce costs

Imagery and Solutions commercialization

Capture and own high-resolution imagery of the entire Earth. Unconstrained use of imagery

Use internal data science capabilities to transform images into insights

We believe that vertical integration across design, manufacturing and operations produces efficiencies up and down the value chain, which allows us to reduce intermediary costs, control quality and scale up more quickly.

Human Capital

As of December 31, 2024, we had 137 full-time employees globally, which includes 73 employees in Argentina (mostly involved in R&D, finance, and accounting), 28 in Spain, 21 in Uruguay (mostly involved in manufacturing), 11 in the U.S. and 4 in other countries. In the second quarter of 2024 we undertook substantial cost control measures which included workforce reductions of approximately 107 full-time employees.

We have always focused on attracting and retaining the best talent with the highest possible cultural alignment. Our geographically-distributed nature is a core tenet that reaches back to the earliest days of Satellogic; well in advance of the rise of work-from-home arrangements in recent years. Our diverse group of employees earnestly shares these common values:

Get it done. Our relentless commitment to hold ourselves accountable and deliver true value.

Be purpose driven. Our intrinsic motivation to make the impossible possible.

Never stop learning. Be intellectually curious, open-minded, and learn from others.

Push the limits. Challenge the status quo, leave your comfort zone and tackle impossible challenges.

Go beyond ego. Be humble, honest and, empathetic and build together for our company, our community and our planet.

At Satellogic, these values precede traditional performance measures when assessing a person’s fit with us. Our vision inherently challenges conventions, and thus requires a special kind of spirit not only to succeed, but even to take on these challenges in the first place. This approach to human capital has enabled us to grow while keeping our core spirit and sense of purpose throughout the twists and turns of our life cycle.

We are committed to developing all of our people in different dimensions, including programmatic leadership, people leadership, business leadership and technological leadership. We actively promote a trust-based organization and a safe environment for risk taking by providing effective mentorship and expecting people to “disagree and commit”.

During the early years of our company, the founders and the senior leaders were the torchbearers of these values and culture, but our expectation is that every leader, which is to say every employee, subscribes to and lives by these values every day.

None of our employees are represented by a labor union, though in some countries our employees may be subject to industry-wide collective bargaining agreements as a matter of law. We have not had any work stoppages and we consider our relations with our employees to be good.

Sales and Marketing

To date, our sales teams have focused on governmental D&I customer opportunities. Since developing and launching our initial constellation of satellites during 2020, we have significantly accelerated our sales and marketing efforts to government D&I agencies, emphasizing relatively new participants in the existing market. We plan to focus our marketing efforts to increase demand for our products and services and awareness of our brand among these agencies.

To better serve the government and D&I vertical, we plan to continue developing our tasking and delivery web-based platform to support distributors, up-sales and increased pricing and capacity transparency in the market.

To increase access to Satellogic EO data and better serve the broader commercial market, Satellogic leverages the expanding satellite imagery and geospatial ecosystem (i.e., channel, reseller and value-added service providers). The ecosystem, including satellite operator integrators, marketplaces, regional- and vertical-specific service providers are an integral part of Satellogic’s strategy.

Customers

In the near term, we intend to derive our revenue from providing EO services, satellite sales, and related services to governments. In the longer term, we intend to expand our operations to serve commercial customers in a variety of markets and industries.

We are currently dependent on three commercial contracts in addition to a small number of other customers for our revenue. In November 2021, we entered into a five-year noncancellable agreement with a technology company that requires the customer to purchase a minimum of $4.0 million of multispectral, hyperspectral, full-motion video and private delivery uplift products each year. The customer pays us in non-cash consideration in the form of a license to a proprietary software platform, which we use for internal operations. During 2024, we recognized $5.3 million in revenue from this customer.

On September 29, 2022, we entered into a $6 million, three-year, constellation-as-a-service agreement. Recognition of revenue under this contract began in the first quarter of 2023 with the initiation of service.

On November 29, 2023, we began collaboration with Tata Advanced Systems Limited (“TASL”), India’s leading provider of defense and intelligence technology and services, for establishing and developing local space technology capabilities in India. We commenced the project with a $5.0 million contract to provide comprehensive training, knowledge transfer, and local assembly of optical sub-meter resolution EO satellites, and the first of which was launched in

  1. The focus will be on manufacturing satellites and developing imagery in India for national defense and commercial applications, toward which TASL is commissioning a satellite AIT plant at its Vemagal facility in Karnataka.

On December 5, 2024, we entered into a data license and distribution agreement with Maxar Intelligence, a peer in the Earth observation industry and with longstanding partnerships with the U.S. government and its allies. Under this arrangement, we granted them exclusivity to be our distributor to the U.S. government defense and intelligence agencies and selected international defense and intelligence partners.

Our business is generally engaged in manufacturing activities and has near-term exposure to fluctuations in the supply of raw materials. We design the systems, subsystems and core components and technologies that go into creating and manufacturing our satellites. We manufacture many of our components, but we also partner with third parties to manufacture certain other components to our design specifications. We then assemble, integrate and test the components and satellites in our facilities. We have a global supply chain of upstream and downstream partners including manufacturers, suppliers and launch providers from a number of countries including the United States. Certain aspects of our manufacturing activities require relatively scarce raw materials or specialty component parts; occasionally, we have experienced difficulty in our ability to procure raw materials, components, sub-assemblies and other supplies required in our manufacturing processes. We bear some risk of supply chain delivery issues and price increases on account of the structure of our vendor contracts.

Launch Providers

With respect to launch providers, our partner selection process typically revolves around availability and cost. In January 2021, we signed a Rideshare Multi-Launch Agreement with SpaceX, our preferred rideshare launch provider, and we expect to continue our launch program with them for the foreseeable future. In April 2022, we secured launch capacity for our next 68 launches with SpaceX, via the SpaceX Agreement. At December 31, 2024, we had 46 launch slots remaining and we continue to work with this rideshare launch provider to schedule upcoming satellite launches.

For every launch, a joint launch campaign is performed at the launch provider’s facility that includes our team, the launch service provider and, in some cases, a third-party separation systems supplier. We provide all the necessary equipment and personnel to test and prepare the satellites for launch while the launch service provider and, if applicable, the third-party separation systems supplier, provide the necessary machinery and personnel to integrate the satellites into the launch vehicle. Once these joint operations are complete, the launch service supplier executes the launch and delivers the satellites into the desired orbit, and we begin the regular, in-orbit operations.

Ground Station and Cloud Storage Infrastructure

We primarily utilize third parties today for ground station, processing, and storage infrastructure. As our business grows, we will continue to monitor the advantages and disadvantages of our outsourced model and may decide to vertically integrate one of more of these functions in the future.

Satellites and Technology

We are a vertically integrated company that designs, manufactures, integrates and operates our own high-resolution imaging satellites, and the image processing pipeline necessary to deliver services to our customers, including images and value-added layers of semantic data. We have innovative technology in every segment of our vertical integration: satellite components, satellite subsystems, satellite systems design, satellite integration and testing, satellite operations, image processing and data delivery.

Our approach towards component selection and design includes the extensive use of commercial off-the-shelf components (“COTS”) and modified-COTS, proprietary component selection and screening methods, and the systematic replacement of expensive hardware using smarter software.

Our unique camera design uses a closed-loop stabilization system and adaptive optics to enable continuous collection of high-resolution imagery from a small-telescope aperture. This patented design is one of the cornerstones of our unit-economics differentiation, allowing us to collect over 10 times more data than any other small-satellite design, and giving us great flexibility to operate our satellites under varying conditions of lighting, altitude and platform stability.

Our success depends in part upon our ability to protect our core technology and intellectual property. To protect our proprietary rights and technology, we rely on a combination of different types of intellectual property rights including patents, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as confidentiality agreements and license agreements with consultants, vendors and customers. As of the date of this Report, we have 37 issued patents, two utility models and 45 pending patent applications in nine jurisdictions. We continue to invest in research and development to design, manufacture and fly new technology to orbit in every new satellite we launch, and we complete every new satellite design on a full design cycle of nine months. We drive technology R&D with the goal of maintaining our high-resolution imaging satellites in a Moore’s law equivalent curve: roughly doubling capacity every 18 months at the same price point.

As of the date of this Report, our satellite constellation consists of 22 NewSat satellites in orbit, 20 of which are operational and two are being used for testing.

We believe that our latest satellite model, the NewSat Mark-V, which possesses a mass of less than 50 kilograms, a cost of approximately $1 million including launch costs, a daily imaging production capacity of over 300,000 square kilometers and carrying a multispectral camera with 70 cm resolution and a hyperspectral camera at 18 meter resolution, is superior to those satellites of our competitors in terms of unit economics, capacity and cost. Over the long term we plan to expand our constellation of satellites to approximately 200.

Our anticipated technology roadmap is as follows:

Long Term Growth Opportunities

Our initial EO constellation and infrastructure are the key building blocks that we expect will enable us to leverage large constellations of small satellites to deliver a wide variety of services to Earth. Our key building blocks include:

Complete, low-cost satellite bus

Modular satellite architecture

Satellite operations at scale

Multi-payload, in-orbit platform

Inter-satellite laser mesh

LEO/MEO/GEO complementarity

Regulatory

NOAA

The purpose of NOAA’s Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs division is to balance the commercial viability of private earth remote sensing space systems and sound regulatory practices and policies while protecting U.S. national security, foreign policy and international obligations.

Our satellites are purposefully designed with telescopes and image capture technology to enable and support the collection of earth imagery. Each satellite is designed and built to collect high-resolution multispectral imagery, hyperspectral imagery and full motion video. The raw data collected by our constellation is collected through a series of ground stations strategically located in several global locations outside of the United States. We have a primary mission command control center in the U.S. that has ultimate operational control of our constellation and is supported by additional teams in each of Spain and Argentina. With the shift of ultimate operational constellation control to the U.S. in 2023, we filed for an operator’s license with NOAA which was granted in November 2023. As a result of obtaining this NOAA operator’s license, we are subject to NOAA’s oversight as we pivot operational control of our satellite constellation to our U.S. personnel and expand our ground station network to include U.S. based ground stations.

In April 2021, we established a wholly owned subsidiary (Satellogic Federal LLC f/k/a Satellogic North America LLC) to focus specifically on cultivating business with U.S. government customers and prime contractors serving those U.S. government customers. In connections with the pursuit of U.S. customers, we anticipate modifications to some of the capture and delivery processes, particularly in support of public sector customers with discernible security and privacy requirements. As we grow our U.S. business, we expect to coordinate with the NOAA Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs agency to assure an understanding of regulations as they evolve and to proactively share any strategic changes contemplated by us that may relate to NOAA’s purview.

The FAA

We entered into a Rideshare Multi-Launch Agreement with SpaceX in early 2021 and the SpaceX Agreement in April 2022. By entering into launch agreements with a U.S.-based launch provider, we are directly and indirectly subject to the license requirements of the Office of Commercial Space Transportation (“AST”). of the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”). The FAA regulates the airspace of the U.S., through which launch vehicles must fly during launch to orbit and through which downlinks of raw data may occur if directed to a U.S.-based ground station. The AST office predominantly processes launch license requests submitted by launch vehicle operators, in our case, SpaceX, which includes information on the rideshare payloads flying on any given mission. As a result, reviews of our payloads by AST occur during, for example, the execution of Technical Assistance Agreement(s) upon SpaceX request and other associated launch reviews and licenses.

We have adopted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“NASA”) and European Space Agency (“ESA”) standards regarding orbital debris mitigation. Having voluntarily subscribed to the United Nations Committee on Personal Uses of Outer Space orbital debris principles and guidance, we sought out the leading technical standards guiding responsible design, management, and test of space objects to meet the defined measures. To that end, we use the NASA orbit debris standard (NASA-STD-8719.14) and the ESA Orbital Debris Mitigation Guidelines (IADC-02-01, Current Revision).

The FCC

In the first half of 2024 we initiated an application with the Federal Communications Commission to obtain a commercial communications license. We anticipate receiving our license grant in the second half of 2025. Aligned with our Domestication, as well as our other U.S. regulatory licenses (NOAA), we filed for this license with the FCC to include future satellite launches under FCC purview. If granted, we will file and coordinate our filings with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) with the FCC. We also intend, if granted an FCC license, to register our satellites with the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) as U.S. flagged satellites, with the sponsorship of the Office of Space Affairs within the U.S. Department of State.

ITAR, EAR and Export Controls

We have a global supply chain of upstream and downstream partners including manufacturers, suppliers and launch providers from a number of countries, including the U.S. The ITAR and EAR are the most relevant export control regulations we monitor. Generally, the ITAR restricts the export of hardware, software, technical data, and services containing defense or strategic applications. The EAR similarly regulates the export of hardware, software, and technology that has commercial or “dual-use” applications (i.e., for both military and commercial applications) or that have less sensitive military or space-related applications not subject to the ITAR. The regulations exist to advance the national security and foreign policy interests of the U.S.

Based upon the technologies we have procured from U.S. sources, we have not been specifically subject to ITAR. Since our export location may invoke, in certain instances, the EAR of the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce, we track our component sourcing. We procure some components from U.S. suppliers listed on the Commerce Control List and we are therefore subject to the EAR. We export our satellites to the U.S. for launch pursuant to the SpaceX Agreement, which provides for launch services. With this current sourcing model and partner ecosystem, we must comply with the EAR.

The U.S. government agencies responsible for administering the ITAR and the EAR have significant discretion in the interpretation and enforcement of these regulations. The agencies also have significant discretion in approving, denying, or conditioning authorizations to engage in controlled activities. Such decisions are influenced by the U.S. government’s commitment to multilateral export control regimes, particularly the Missile Technology Control Regime concerning the spaceflight business.

Many different types of internal controls and measures are required to ensure compliance with export control regulations. In particular, we routinely complete end user compliance documents, record sourcing detail regarding country of origin and known classification numbers, determine the appropriate licensing jurisdiction (where applicable), and provide notice to internal and partner foreign team members of export-controlled information restrictions. In accordance with our Sanctions Compliance Policy, we do not export to embargoed, targeted sanction, or special policy countries. We have implemented a compliance diligence process for all third parties including, among other validations, verification of the parties with whom we contract at an entity and individual level.

Interagency Review

The review and approval of any license discussed above, as may be required, will be subject to interagency reviews that allow multiple government agencies including the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of State, U.S. DoD, NASA, and others. The purpose of this interagency review is to examine such license applications from each agency’s respective perspective including but not limited to safety, operational, national security, foreign policy and international obligations, as well as review of foreign ownership.

Other Potential Future U.S. Regulation

As we grow our U.S. business and to the extent we become a U.S. governmental contractor, our business will be subject to various additional U.S. regulation and related requirements, including but not limited to (1) the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement and the U.S. DoD and federal cybersecurity requirements, in connection with any defense work we perform in the future for the U.S. government and defense prime contractors, (2) the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual administered by the U.S. Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, and other U.S. government security protocols when accessing sensitive information, (3) maintaining national security clearance and mitigation elements under the National Industry Security Program and agreement with the U.S. DoD regarding any appropriate FOCI mitigation arrangement with respect to our U.S.-based subsidiary and (4) conducting routine investigations and reviews relating to compliance with various U.S. laws and regulations, including those associated with organizational conflicts of interest, procurement integrity, bid integrity and claim presentation, among others.

Organizational Structure

We are a holding company. The following diagram shows our ownership and structure(1):

(1)All lines represent 100% ownership unless otherwise indicated.

Subsidiaries of the Group as of March 14, 2025:

NamePrincipal activitiesCountry ofincorporation
Urugus S.A.Manufacturing, assembly, integration, test and exportsUruguay
Nettar GroupIntermediate holding companyB.V.I.
Nettar S.A.Intermediate holding companyUruguay
Telluric Ltd.Research and development (Company is in the process of winding down this entity)Israel
Satellogic V. Inc.Intermediate holding companyUnited States
Satellogic USA, Inc. (1)Finance, sales and marketing, product strategy, business development and customer deliveryUnited States
Satellogic S.A. (2)Research and development, administration, back office services (accounting) and prototype-buildingArgentina
Satellogic Solutions S.L. (2)Research and development (data science solutions and machine learning over the satellite images)Spain
Satellogic China LTD (3)Not operational, in process of winddownChina
Satellogic China Beijing Branch (4)Not operational, in process of winddownChina
Satellogic Federal LLC (5)Sales and marketingUnited States
Satellogic Netherlands B.V. (6)Operating entity not currently operationalThe Netherlands

(1)This entity is controlled through Satellogic V. Inc.

(2)This entity is controlled through Nettar, S.A. an intermediate holding entity of the Group.

(3)This entity is controlled through Urugus S.A.

(4)Branch of Satellogic China LTD

(5)This entity is controlled through Satellogic USA, Inc

(6)This entity is controlled by Satellogic Solutions S.L.

Available Information

Our Internet website address is www.satellogic.com. Our annual reports on Form 10-K (formerly on Form 20-F), quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act are available free of charge through our website as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file with or furnish them to the SEC, and are available in print to any stockholder who requests a printed copy. We also use our website as a means of disclosing additional information, including for complying with our disclosure obligations under the SEC's Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure). The SEC maintains a website that contains reports, proxy statements, information statements and other information regarding issuers, including us, that file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov.

In addition, many of our corporate governance documents are available on our website at www.satellogic.com. Specifically, our Audit, Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance and Finance Committee Charters, our Corporate Governance Guidelines and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics are available. Each of these documents is also available in print to any stockholder who requests it.

The content on our website is available for information purposes only and is not a part of and shall not be deemed incorporated by reference in this Report.

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