Company: SATLW
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-014951
Chunk: 99

Company: Satellogic Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 99
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, and local assembly of optical sub-meter resolution EO satellites, and the first of which was launched in 

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2024. 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