Dawn-to-dusk imagery collection reveals rapid
pace of construction for China’s second off-shore strategic naval
port
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) released a ten-image
collection captured over Ream, Cambodia, showing the rapid pace of
development of a large Chinese military naval station from August
2021 until July 2023. The high-resolution, electro-optical images
are part of a collection of more than 520 images captured from
October 2019 until now and contains time-diverse imagery taken as
early as 8 a.m., and as late as 7:58 p.m., Indochina Time.
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BlackSky released a ten-image collection
captured over Ream, Cambodia, showing the rapid pace of development
of a large Chinese military naval station from August 2021 until
July 2023. The high-resolution, electro-optical images are part of
a collection of more than 520 images captured from October 2019
until the now and contains time-diverse imagery taken as early as 8
a.m., and as late as 7:58 p.m., Indochina Time. (Imagery: BlackSky)
Editorial Note: In this graphical sequence, the images from
December 22, 2022 and June 27, 2023 were augmented with elements
from other BlackSky imagery at the southwest and northwest corners,
respectively, to provide a complete picture and preserve the
clarity of the visual.
“BlackSky’s unique ability to capture and quickly deliver large
volumes of dawn-to-dusk, time-diverse imagery increases
transparency into strategic military and economic activities that
otherwise would have gone unnoticed,” said Brian E. O’Toole,
BlackSky CEO. “Our commercial high-frequency monitoring satellite
constellation and AI-driven tasking and analytics platform gives
our customers the on-demand ability to observe critical change over
time."
“The speed of development at the Ream base makes it difficult to
deny the intentional velocity behind China’s overseas basing
initiatives,” said Craig Singleton, China Program deputy director
and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
“Cambodia’s receptivity to hosting China’s second overseas naval
port increases Beijing’s strategic ability to project military
power into the Indian Ocean.”
“There is a near-exact similarity between an angled deep-water
pier located on the western shore of the Ream base and another
military pier at the People’s Liberation Army Support Base in
Djibouti. Both main piers are 363 meters long and large enough to
support any ship in China’s naval arsenal, including the new
300-meter-long Type 003 Fujian aircraft carrier,” Singleton
said.
Third-party analysts have also observed the development of a
thirty-eight thousand square meter artificial peninsula on the
southern shore of the base and many architecturally distinct
Cambodian and Chinese military buildings, including an alleged
headquarters facility, barracks and fuel storage areas.
BlackSky’s high-resolution constellation can capture imagery on
an hourly basis up to 15 times per day. This unique ability to
gather images from dawn until dusk is possible because BlackSky’s
constellation flies predominantly in inclined orbits, horizontally
oriented around the equator. Traditional satellite imagery
providers are limited to capturing images between 10 a.m. and 2
p.m. because they fly in sun synchronous polar orbits.
BlackSky delivers thousands of images and analytics every month
to organizations worldwide, delivering transparency and insights
into border crossings, nuclear and port facilities, and other
economically critical infrastructure at scale.
The original high resolution, ten-image collection is available
upon request.
About BlackSky
BlackSky is a leading provider of real-time geospatial
intelligence. BlackSky delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery,
monitoring and analytics of the most critical and strategic
locations, economic assets, and events in the world.
BlackSky designs, owns and operates one of the industry’s
leading low earth orbit small satellite constellations, optimized
to capture imagery cost-efficiently where and when our customers
need it. BlackSky’s Spectra AI software platform processes data
from BlackSky’s constellation and from other third-party sensors to
develop the critical insights and analytics that our customers
require.
BlackSky is relied upon by 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 Twitter.
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