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Satellogic Inc. (SATLW) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Prepared remarks

OperatorOperator

Good afternoon, and welcome to the Satellogic Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results Conference Call. The operator provided instructions on participation. During today's call, management may make statements relating to goals and objectives for the future operations, financial and business trends, business prospects, future financial metrics, customer contracts and pipeline, revenue generation and expectations for future performance that constitute forward-looking statements under the federal securities laws. Any such forward-looking statements reflect management expectations based upon currently available information and are not guarantees of future performance. They involve certain risks and uncertainties that are more fully described in Satellogic's SEC filings, including the Risk Factors section of our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, and other filings with the SEC. Actual results, performance or achievements may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by these forward-looking statements. Satellogic undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or developments after the date of this call. On this call, management will also discuss financial measures not determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, including EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted operating cash flow. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are presented in the appendix to today's presentation and in the earnings materials posted on the Investor Relations section of the website. A press release detailing these results was issued this afternoon and is available at satellogic.com. Hosting today's call will be Satellogic's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Emiliano Kargieman; and Chief Financial Officer, Rick Dunn. With that, I will now turn the call over to the CEO. Please go ahead, sir.

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Satellogic's Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. Joining me today is Rick Dunn, our Chief Financial Officer. I'll start with the quarterly results and the commercial wins that drove them and then comment on where our contracted backlog stands for the balance of this year. Rick will then take you through the financials in detail. After that, I'll come back to where this market is going, why we think we're positioned to lead it and provide an update on Merlin and on our infrastructure build-out. I'll then close with key takeaways before we open the line for questions. In the second quarter, we grew revenue 259% year-over-year to $15.9 million, generated positive operating income and positive adjusted EBITDA for the first time in the company's history. And while revenue grew 259%, operating expenses increased only 46%, demonstrating the real operating leverage of our vertically integrated model. This milestone represents a major step towards sustained profitability and validates the operating leverage we have discussed over the past few quarters. We had four key sovereign and defense wins and milestones as follows: First, we successfully delivered the first satellite in Portugal's $18 million CEiiA program, converting nearly half the program to recognized revenue. Second, we secured and started delivery of an international Aleph Observer agreement with a defense customer valued at more than $18 million, moving from initial trial to full-scale deployment in under six months. Third, in April, we closed a $12 million agreement for the in-orbit delivery and transfer of a commissioned NewSat satellite to a sovereign defense customer. This is the third sovereign transaction we have announced in the past two quarters. And fourth, we announced strategic collaborations with SynMax and SpaceKnow to build AI-powered geospatial intelligence products in our platform. We recognized $22 million in revenue in the first half of the year and ended the quarter with $80.7 million in contracted non-cancellable total remaining performance obligations. Significantly, $45.8 million of that RPO is contracted for realization within the next 12 months. This gives us strong top-line visibility as we continue to convert our growing defense pipeline and lean into the strong global sovereign demand. To ensure we capture this demand, we expanded our sales organization with three senior industry leaders and ramped up satellite production at our Montevideo facility to support our Merlin, NewSat and NextGen programs alongside sovereign deliveries. During the quarter, we also welcomed retired Lieutenant General Michael E. Williamson to our Board as an Independent Director. Now before sharing updates on Aleph Observer, the transition to Persistent Global Intelligence and the build-out of our Merlin constellation, I will hand the call over to Rick to walk you through the financial details. Rick?

Richard DunnChief Financial Officer

Thank you, Emiliano, and good afternoon, everyone. Today's geospatial data market is supply constrained with customers demanding significantly more data at lower costs. Because we operate one of the largest high-resolution constellations in the world, we benefit from considerable operating leverage. By utilizing our existing in-orbit fleet capacity and fully leveraging our cost leadership, we're well positioned to capture this demand. The second quarter and the first half of 2026 mark a structural and financial inflection point for Satellogic. Starting with revenue. Total revenue for the second quarter was $15.9 million, up 259% year-over-year. For the first six months of 2026, total revenue reached $22 million, representing an increase of 181% compared to $7.8 million in the first half of 2025. Looking at our Q2 business lines, Space Systems contributed $8.8 million or 55% of revenue, driven by sovereign satellite deliveries. Data and Analytics contributed $7.1 million or 45% of revenue as customer subscriptions for persistent monitoring expanded. We also expanded our geographic reach across our sovereign and defense customer base. Europe led the second quarter at 58% of revenue or $9.2 million, driven by CEiiA delivery. The Middle East and North Africa contributed $3.6 million or 22% of revenue, while the Americas generated $2.3 million or 14% of revenue and Asia-Pacific represented $900,000 or 6% of revenue. Turning to margins and cost structure. We delivered these results with an 82% gross margin in the second quarter, exclusive of depreciation. Total operating expenses were $15.7 million, up 46% in comparison to the 259% revenue growth, highlighting the operating leverage inherent in our vertically integrated model. This operating leverage drove profitability metrics for Satellogic as follows: First, we achieved positive quarterly operating income of just over $300,000 for the quarter. Second, we delivered positive adjusted EBITDA of $2.8 million for the quarter. Both of these are firsts for the company. Lastly, adjusted EBITDA loss improved $8.7 million year-to-date, coming in at $1.4 million compared to $10.1 million in the first half of 2025. Our GAAP net loss for the quarter was $20 million, which includes a $19.7 million noncash fair value charge resulting from the remeasurement of financial instruments tied to stock price movement. Turning to cash flow. Net cash used in operating activities was $8.6 million in the second quarter compared to $4.3 million used in the prior year period. It is important to note that GAAP operating cash flow excludes $8.3 million in proceeds from the sale of an in-orbit satellite originally capitalized as part of our own fleet. These proceeds are presented within investing activities. From an adjusted operating cash flow basis, which includes the in-orbit satellite sale, our operating cash flow for the first half was essentially breakeven at $100,000. Looking at the balance sheet, we closed the quarter in a strong liquidity position with $112.8 million in cash and cash equivalents. In terms of backlog, total non-cancelable remaining performance obligations stood at $80.7 million as of June 30, with $45.8 million expected to be recognized in the next 12 months. This is an increase of $15.9 million this quarter, reflecting $28.6 million of additions to backlog and $12.7 million recognized as revenue in the quarter. Additionally, we delevered by $12 million as a result of an equity conversion exercised by our secured convertible note holder during the quarter. Our secured convertible debt reduced from $30 million to $18 million during the quarter. With our operating leverage, growing recurring revenue and expanding defense pipeline, we expect 2026 to be a major step towards sustained profitability, crossing into positive free cash flow in 2027 as Merlin enters operational service. With that, I will turn the call back over to Emiliano.

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Rick. We see the earth observation market undergoing a fundamental transformation. For years, the gaps in this market were not so much a technology problem, but a unit economics and business model problem. Legacy providers did not build the infrastructure required to capture information globally and persistently at a reasonable cost and could not deliver data at the scale required. Customers suffered the consequences. Sparse, expensive and capacity-limited systems were insufficient to serve the growing demand for geospatial awareness and forced the legacy earth observation business model to be transactional, expensive and exclusive. A customer requests an image of a specific coordinate, receives a fragmented snapshot, experiences breaks in cadence and buys imagery scene-by-scene at a high cost, leaving them with an incomplete view and exposing them to decision risk. With the technology stack that Satellogic has built over the last few years, that is no longer the case. Our satellite capacity, unit economics and scalability allow us to build the infrastructure required to deliver Persistent Global Intelligence. Persistent Global Intelligence is a different category. The requirement is to identify and monitor areas continuously, delivering an uninterrupted stream of situational awareness. As persistent monitoring becomes available in the market, customers are leaning into continued monitoring service to replace episodic imagery. We believe this shift is structural, supported by our unit economic breakthroughs and fueled by heightened geopolitical urgency, distributed threats and the coming of age of AI and analytics. Defense and intelligence customers are starting to prioritize persistent monitoring over transactional buys. That moves our business towards high-margin multi-quarter subscription programs. This quarter, we started to see the impact of this change in our numbers rather than only in customer conversations. Our Data and Analytics revenue, as Rick mentioned, was $7.1 million in the second quarter, up from $4.6 million in the first, a 54% sequential growth on the subscription side of business, even in a quarter where satellite deliveries were the headline. Aleph Observer, the persistent monitoring platform we launched in February, is converting one-off imagery buyers into multi-quarter monitoring subscriptions. Six months ago, Persistent Global Intelligence was a thesis we were describing to you. It is now becoming a core driver of the company's business. This brings me to why we are positioned to lead this category. Vertical integration and our payload innovations are what make persistent global scale coverage economically viable and poised for growth. This comes down to physics and unit economics. Our patent-protected camera design lets us capture an exceptional volume of high-resolution imagery from a small form factor, and combined with a fully loaded NewSat cost of approximately $1.3 million per satellite — a small fraction of the industry standard — that collection efficiency sets our operating economics apart. That cost structure is why we can serve persistent monitoring at theater scale and still hold the gross margins that Rick just walked us through and why our margin profile improves rather than compresses as we scale collection. As the market shifts to always-on monitoring, Satellogic builds the infrastructure that produces persistent intelligence. For sovereign defense customers, this infrastructure delivers strategic autonomy, intelligence continuity and decision advantage independent of third-party priorities and without key dependencies on foreign suppliers. Here is how this infrastructure stack is built across a series of integrated layers. First, operational monitoring with NewSats. Our 50-centimeter class Mark V and Mark VI satellite constellation is operational today, powering persistent monitoring across thousands of priority sites daily and driving subscription revenue through Aleph Observer. Second, the global baseline detection layer we're building with Merlin. Our Merlin constellation is on track to start launching in October 2026. The first satellite is fully integrated and ready to ship to the launcher, having passed all environmental and functional tests. Merlin is our daily global remap constellation designed to create a dedicated global baseline detection layer. Building on the onboard computing, edge AI and inter-satellite links we engineer for our fleet, Merlin satellites incorporate a wide-swath, high-resolution imager and the ability to process data directly in orbit and communicate across our entire constellation in real time. Rather than waiting for a ground station downlink, Merlin can detect changes at the edge and automatically tip and cue our high-resolution constellation in seconds, collapsing what used to be a multi-hour ground loop to minutes. The third layer is precision verification with NextGen, a 30-centimeter class system currently in development to confirm, characterize and verify activity. On top of these data collection layers sit powerful partner AI and analytics and our customers' agentic platforms, implementing the automated workflows that deliver decisions at scale and on time. The true power is in the AI-first automated loop amongst these layers. The baseline detects, the monitoring layer sustains and the precision layer verifies, giving our customers an integrated always-on decision advantage. Our product offering across Data and Analytics and Space Systems, ranging from imagery archive all the way to local assembly, integration facilities and supply chain localization, is built to support our customers in their journey towards operating a truly sovereign, autonomous and independent infrastructure for Persistent Global Intelligence. As a quick aside, I mentioned that Merlin is on track for its October launch, and I want now to draw your attention to this image showing the first Merlin satellite, MELI 1, fully integrated in our clean room last month. This is our first flight model built end-to-end in-house based on our extensive bus heritage from the NewSat constellation after having successfully passed all environmental qualification and functional testing. The hardware is ready to ship to the launch site in time for a planned October launch window, and the team is now focused on the integration of the next set of satellites in the fleet. It is good to be able to share this picture and highlight that Merlin is progressing as planned, executing against the core fundamentals we committed to. Before summarizing our key takeaways, I want to share an important leadership update. As we previously disclosed, August 21 will be Rick Dunn's last day as Chief Financial Officer of Satellogic. Rick has been with us for 7.5 years. He built the financial infrastructure that carried this company to going public through operational scaling and through to the strong financial results that we reported today. Our search for a permanent successor is active. To ensure a seamless transition, Dustin Greer, our Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller, will assume the role of Interim CFO effective August 21, if a permanent successor has not yet been appointed. Dustin is supported by an exceptional finance team, and we have complete confidence in their continued execution. I will hand the floor to Rick for a few brief comments.

Richard DunnChief Financial Officer

Thanks, Emiliano. After 7.5 years, when I look at where we started against where we stand today, recording our first positive operating income and adjusted EBITDA this quarter, I'm immensely proud of what this team has built. We established a financial foundation for the first vertically integrated geospatial company and stood up the infrastructure for Persistent Global Intelligence. The company's financial footing is the strongest it has ever been, and we've built a resilient finance organization to support the business as it continues to scale. The trajectory is clear, and I look forward to watching Satellogic execute on its next phase of growth. Thank you, everyone.

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Rick. On behalf of our Board and the entire team, thank you for your leadership and your dedication. To wrap up, I want to leave you with five takeaways from the second quarter. First, financial inflection has been achieved. Our record Q2 revenue of $15.9 million and positive adjusted EBITDA of $2.8 million proved the operating leverage of our business model. Second, the Persistent Global Intelligence market shift is underway. The market is transitioning from transactional imagery buys to always-on monitoring, and we build an infrastructure that powers the subscription preference. Third, vertical integration is our moat. In-house design and manufacturing and the differentiated cost structure and scalability it supports makes theater-scale persistent monitoring economically viable and highly profitable. Fourth, we are fully funded to global awareness. Operating one of the world's largest commercial constellations today, our Merlin constellation remains on track for its first launch in October 2026 and fully funded to launch a global baseline detection layer equipped with edge AI and inter-satellite links with full service in the second half of 2027. And fifth, Satellogic is well capitalized to respond to strong market demand. We are operating from a position of strength with $112.8 million in cash, debt principal reduced to $18 million and strong market traction with sovereign customers across all of our product lines. With that, operator, please open the line for questions.

Questions and answers

OperatorOperator

The first question we have comes from Andres Sheppard of Cantor Fitzgerald.

Andres Sheppard-SlingerAnalyst (Cantor Fitzgerald)

Congratulations on the quarter. Rick, wishing you all the best as well. It's been great working with you. And again, wishing you all the best. In terms of questions, first one is on Merlin. So you reaffirmed that Merlin is on track for the October launch window, which is very exciting. I guess a few quick questions here: Emiliano, can you maybe remind us what are the key milestones left towards bringing it to the path that investors should be tracking? And more importantly, as we move towards operational capacity next year, my other question there is, how are you thinking about the cadence for future launches? And how quickly do you think you could potentially ramp up? Thank you.

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

Excellent. Andres, thank you for the question. So yes, Merlin is fully on track now for our first launch window, which is in October. All of the functional tests and environmental tests on the satellite have been performed. The satellite is essentially packaged at our manufacturing facility and ready for pickup. So the next phase is it will go to the launcher and be integrated into a launch vehicle, in this case, a SpaceX Transporter mission in time for the launch window in October. On the Satellogic side, the next steps are shipping and receiving the satellite on the other side and the launch campaign, putting the satellite in the rocket, which we've done already more than 50 times in the past. So it's something that we're quite familiar with. Then the satellite will go up in October. There's a commissioning phase for the first satellite while we continue to produce the next Merlin satellite that will be launched in two launches in 2027. We expect both launches in the first half of the year. So the full constellation to provide complete service will be up, if all goes according to plan, in the first half of 2027. Then we will start delivering full service in the second half of the year. We expect to work with some of our anchor and initial customers as soon as we launch the first satellite in October to familiarize them with the data and to build the processing pipelines that they will need to operate at scale. So there will be a development phase with our initial customers. But yes, full service will begin in the second half of 2027, we expect.

Andres Sheppard-SlingerAnalyst (Cantor Fitzgerald)

Excellent. Thank you very much. That was very helpful. And maybe just a quick follow-up. So your backlog increased materially quarter-over-quarter, and you provided a great slide with granularity, which we appreciate. My question here is, you also talked about a lot of the macro landscape and things that are unfolding. So what other opportunities are you currently potentially working on that are not included in the backlog that you might be able to share with us? And how are you thinking about continuing to increase the pipeline going forward?

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

Yes. So we are experiencing good tailwinds from the market in the sense of growing demand internationally and in the U.S. Obviously, geopolitical tensions tend to increase the need for persistent intelligence, and so many customer conversations that we've been having over the last few years are accelerating because of this. On top of that, there's an increase in defense budgets across the board from U.S. allies around the world, which is also helpful to build up these pipelines. We also see a structural factor contributing here in the wide adoption of AI and analytics and integrating AI analytics into processing pipelines to deliver decision-grade intelligence in the defense and intelligence side. Analytics and AI are allowing our customers to consume a lot more data at a faster pace and still derive the right signals they need for intelligence. So I think all of these factors are contributing to increased demand. To respond to that demand, we have brought in some fantastic new members to our sales team that have the relationships and the international experience to help us bring what we're doing to customers at a faster pace. So we are responding to that demand. I think our pipeline is very strong. We continue to see traction in the market and increased interest. We expect that pipeline to convert in the second half of the year into 2027 at a fast pace.

OperatorOperator

The next question we have comes from Jeff Van Rhee of Craig-Hallum Capital Group.

Jeff Van RheeAnalyst (Craig-Hallum Capital Group)

Rick, it's certainly been a pleasure working with you. Wish you all the best. Emiliano, just a few things. On Aleph Observer, February 26 launch, I think you mentioned this was the year of pilots. Can you dive a little deeper there, maybe even quantify how many pilots, how are they progressing? What's the feedback relative to expectations? Any other color you'd share would be great.

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

Sure. Jeff. Thanks for the question. So in reality, we expected 2026 to be a year of pilots because typically a new product like this requires customers to get familiar with it. For government customers on the defense side, it also requires that they find the budgets to pay for distinct subscriptions. So we expected 2026 to tap into a portion of discretionary budgets for pilots, and then those convert into full-range services in the cadence that we expect as they expand the number of sites they monitor going into 2027. I think we've been pleasantly surprised by the speed at which we are converting some of these pilots into full programs. I think the $80 million contract we announced a few months ago is a very good example. We went from the initial pilot to a full-scale program in less than six months. That's been a really good surprise. We do not expect all pilots to progress at the same speed, but that is a very good indication of traction in the market. The team is actively working with customers across all of the geographies that we serve on initial pilot programs, and we expect to have more news to share in the second half of the year.

Jeff Van RheeAnalyst (Craig-Hallum Capital Group)

Got it. And more broadly then, as I look at the pipeline or as you look at the pipeline, cycle times, deal sizes, deal types, competition, geography, any aspects that are notable that have changed maybe in the last 180 or even 90 days?

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

Nothing out of what we have already commented on, which is we are seeing some of the conversations progressing on accelerated timelines. Typically, sovereign space deals are larger and have longer sales cycles — often over a year. We are seeing some cases in which deals are progressing through the pipeline at a faster pace. This is due to the factors I mentioned earlier. We're seeing some compression of sales cycles on Space Systems, which is good news. But in general, both business lines, Data and Analytics and Space Systems, still follow the expected patterns: Space Systems are lumpier deals with longer sales cycles, and Data and Analytics deals are smaller ticket sizes with faster sales cycles, producing subscription-based recurring revenue that helps build predictability. So those business lines are behaving largely as expected.

Jeff Van RheeAnalyst (Craig-Hallum Capital Group)

I think you commented AI is driving almost infinite need. AI wants all the sensor data it can provide. With Merlin and a lot of things you're talking about, you're playing directly to that. But I'm curious on the AI front: has your perspective on AI's impact on your business changed materially in the last 90 to 180 days?

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

We believe AI is a structural part of our market and here to stay. AI significantly increases our customers' ability to consume more data faster and creates more demand for data and constellations like ours. This is a structural change, not a fad, and it supports our outlook. It supports this year being transformational for the company as we begin to show operating leverage by increasing top-line revenue. We're seeing a lot of confirmation from the market of these trends.

Jeff Van RheeAnalyst (Craig-Hallum Capital Group)

Nice numbers. Love the incremental margins, a lot here to like. So congrats to you and the team.

OperatorOperator

The next question we have comes from Sujeeva De Silva of ROTH Capital Partners.

Sujeeva De SilvaAnalyst (ROTH Capital Partners)

Best of luck in the transition, Rick. On the data analytics revenue, it was very strong sequentially. I know you mentioned that customers are upgrading to persistent monitoring. Can you talk about the metrics that could show that kind of quarter-over-quarter strength and whether it will persist — things like ARPU or customer utilization — anything that will help us understand the transition from imagery to persistent monitoring? And then a follow-up: regarding the SynMax and SpaceKnow applications, it sounds like you're building a platform where more apps can be layered on. Is that a virtuous cycle where the apps bring customers to the platform? Or is there an actual financial contribution from these apps to you above and beyond the value-add of the network?

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

That's a great question. We're not sharing ARPU or MRR metrics yet, but we are collecting them. We've had less than two quarters since the launch of Aleph Observer, so we'd like to observe performance for a couple more quarters before sharing metrics like ARPU, MRR or long-term customer value. We believe the subscription business we're building on the data analytics side should have metrics compatible with Data-as-a-Service or Software-as-a-Service models, and those are the benchmarks we are using internally. Regarding SynMax and SpaceKnow, bringing best-of-breed models trained for specific use cases onto our data adds direct value to customers and allows us to deliver more actionable data. It's synergistic: partners build applications on top of our data, which adds value for customers and drives more demand for data, benefiting Satellogic as well. You can expect to see more partners and more applications signed on top of our data feeds, particularly for Aleph Observer today and even more as Merlin becomes operational next year.

OperatorOperator

The next question we have comes from Alex Latimore of Northland Capital Markets.

Alex LatimoreAnalyst (Northland Capital Markets)

Best of luck, Rick, in the journey. I just have one question on Palantir. Any insights into a potential contract renewal later this year or early 2027?

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

We continue to work with Palantir as a strong partner, delivering data mostly to the U.S. government. We're not in a position today to confirm any follow-on contracts with them, but they have been a strong partner for us over the last 4.5 years, and end customers are receiving value from the collaboration. We are working with them on how the relationships with the end customer continue after the end of the current contract.

Richard DunnChief Financial Officer

I'll add that this relationship with Palantir has historically been structured as a barter transaction, so the net cash to us has been zero. We brought them on board as a partner to establish a relationship and get them to use our data, which was important. That continues to be important. We're at a different point in the business now where we don't necessarily feel we need to barter our data and analytics. They have used our data and like our data. We're optimistic about continuing to provide them with data and hope to receive cash for it in the future.

Alex LatimoreAnalyst (Northland Capital Markets)

Great. Another one: you mentioned many pilots in the works. Can you provide insight into the average deal size with sovereign nations going forward?

Richard DunnChief Financial Officer

It will continue to vary deal to deal. It's hard to put strict parameters around deal size. We are certainly looking at seven- and eight-figure deals, but that's a wide range. It really depends on the customer, their needs and how quickly they're able and willing to move on either data acquisition or a space systems deal.

Alex LatimoreAnalyst (Northland Capital Markets)

One final quick one: how much open capacity do you currently have on your constellation? And is it correct to think about full capacity data subscription on NewSat as about $65 million?

Richard DunnChief Financial Officer

I wouldn't make that assumption about $65 million. Capacity is less relevant from our perspective as we enter persistent global monitoring and intelligence. The dynamics have changed since we used capacity as a simple metric. Emiliano can expand on that.

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

There's potential for significantly more than $65 million of revenue with our existing constellation through Aleph Observer and subscription programs. We continue to have the largest unencumbered capacity in the market today, and adding customers and revenue hasn't constrained what we can deliver so far. Also, in many areas where customers cluster, we can deliver the same monitored sites to more than one customer, so there's not a one-to-one relationship between sites captured and customers served. With the same number of monitored sites, we can serve multiple customers, so the potential is significant.

OperatorOperator

The next question we have comes from Adar of Freedom Capital Markets.

AdarAnalyst (Freedom Capital Markets)

I have a couple of questions. First, you previously described Space Systems' pipeline as nearly $1 billion. How much of it has a defined budget and procurement timeline or technical scope rather than still being early-stage?

Richard DunnChief Financial Officer

Our pipeline continues to be in that order of magnitude, and each opportunity in the pipeline has a defined budget. There's a customer with an identified need and a budget to move forward, so from our perspective they are all qualified opportunities. Each deal is at a different stage depending on the customer, how long we've been talking to them and their ability to move. Sovereign deals are unique in buyer, process and timing. We've converted Space Systems deals in as little as four to six months and in some cases it has taken up to three years. Data and Analytics deals tend to convert much quicker and don't linger in the pipeline as long.

AdarAnalyst (Freedom Capital Markets)

Okay, that's helpful. Second question related to defense missions: for which defense missions does 1-meter resolution coverage remain sufficient, and where are customers increasingly requiring better resolution imagery to qualify for procurement?

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

Our current constellation delivering 50-centimeter resolution imagery sits at the sweet spot for most defense customers. Customers will always prefer higher resolution if available, but the critical factor is the ability to deliver imagery over the sites they need to monitor with sufficient revisit cadence. If you can deliver 30-centimeter imagery but only one image every three days, it doesn't meet many operational demands. With Aleph Observer and Persistent Global Intelligence, the ability to deliver consistent daily imagery across thousands of sites provides actionable situational awareness that many customers have never had before. Actionability — identifying equipment movement, presence of assets, and changes over time — matters more than any single resolution number.

OperatorOperator

At this stage, there seem to be no further questions. I will now hand the call over to Emiliano for closing remarks. Please go ahead.

Emiliano KargiemanFounder & Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, operator, and thank you all for joining us today. The second quarter was the quarter that Satellogic crossed over. We are building the infrastructure for Persistent Global Intelligence, continuous proactive awareness of the places, assets and activities that matter. We intend to lead this category as it forms, and we look forward to updating all of you on our progress next quarter. If we were unable to address any of your questions today, please reach out to our Investor Relations team at ir@satellogic.com. Thank you, and have a good afternoon.

OperatorOperator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that then concludes today's conference. Thank you for joining us. You may now disconnect your lines.

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