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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Space Minds: BlackSky’s Lyn Chassagne on using satellite imagery to solve problems

05/12/2026

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In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with BlackSky’s Lyn Chassagne about AI’s role in the imagery sector, how international partners are thinking about sovereignty and the quest for omniscience.

BlackSky’s Lyn Chassagne on using satellite imagery to solve problems

FROM THE CONVERSATION

Mike Gruss: "One thing we heard a lot about at Symposium was yes, there's a huge emphasis on AI, but there's also a growing need to validate what AI is doing. How are you guys thinking about that?"

Lyn Chassagne: "I always think about how as humans, we have high tolerance for human error. And if you think about an analyst who's counting airplanes on a runway all day every day and looking for patterns, they're going to make mistakes. And we are okay with those mistakes. But when the AI doesn't have 100% reliability around the same type of work, then we don't trust it. We don't think about how we train it and make it better, we say 'Well, we can't do that because we can't afford the risk.'"

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