Related Party Transactions (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Schedule of Related Party Transactions

							Amount Due to Related Party as of
			Total Payments in the Years Ended December 31,				December 31,		December 31,
	Nature of Relationship		2023		2022		2023		2022
Name		Description of the Transactions	(in thousands)
LeoStella	Joint Venture with Thales Alenia Space	The Company owns 50% of LeoStella, its joint venture with Thales. The Company contracts with LeoStella for the design, development and manufacture of satellites to operate its business.	$	23,910	$	28,042	$	10,843	$	3,728
X-Bow	Equity Method Investee	The Company had a less than 20% investment in X-Bow and held one Board seat through November 2023 when it sold its investment.	—		900		—		—
Ursa Space Systems	Strategic Partner	The chairman of the Company’s board of directors, Will Porteous, is also an investor and member of the board of directors of Ursa Space Systems. The Company has a non-cancelable operational commitment with Ursa Space Systems.	458		583		42		—
Thales Alenia Space	Shareholder and Parent of Wholly-owned Subsidiary, Seahawk (Debt Issuer)	Design, development and manufacture of telescopes.	8,092		11,388		750		693
Seahawk	Debt Issuer and subsidiary of Thales Alenia Space	In 2019, the Company raised and converted $18.4 million from prior debt into new, outstanding debt and issued 13.5 million warrants to purchase Legacy BlackSky common stock.	375		—		22,793		20,787
Intelsat	Debt Issuer	In 2019, the Company entered into a term loan facility for $50.0 million and issued 20.2 million warrants to purchase Legacy BlackSky common stock.	1,042		—		61,785		56,345