As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 4, 2023

Registration No. 333-      

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

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FORM F-4

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

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SATELLOGIC INC. (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

British Virgin Islands* (Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)

6770 (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number)

Not Applicable (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

Ruta 8 Km 17,500, Edificio 300 Oficina 324 Zonamerica Montevideo, 91600, Uruguay 00-598-25182302          (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’ s principal executive offices)

 

Rick Dunn Satellogic Inc. Chief Financial Officer 210 Delburg Street Davidson, NC 28036 (704) 894-4482 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

Copies to:
Keith M. Townsend Zachary Davis King & Spalding LLP 1180 Peachtree Street, NE Suite 1600 Atlanta, GA 30309 (404) 572-4600	Matthew Brannen Vice President, Legal Satellogic, Inc. 210 Delburg Street Davidson, NC 28036 (704) 894-4482

 

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Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: The domestication described herein will be effective on, or as soon as practicable after, the date that this registration statement is declared effective.

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If applicable, place an X in the box to designate the appropriate rule provision relied upon in conducting this transaction:

 

Exchange Act Rule 13e-4(i) (Cross-Border Issuer Tender Offer) ☐

 

Exchange Act Rule 14d-l(d) (Cross-Border Third-Party Tender Offer) ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.

 

Emerging growth company ☒

 

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards † provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

 

† The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.

 

*        This prospectus will not be filed with the British Virgin Islands Registrar of Corporate Affairs. Neither the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission nor the British Virgin Islands Registrar of Corporate Affairs accepts any responsibility for Satellogic Delaware’s financial soundness or the correctness of any of the statements made or opinions expressed in this prospectus.

 

The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment that specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

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The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. This prospectus is not an offer to sell securities and we are not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED DECEMBER 4, 2023

 

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

 

Shares of Class A Common Stock
Shares of Class B Common Stock
Warrants

 

DOMESTICATION IN DELAWARE

 

Satellogic Inc. (the “Company” or “we”) is a business company with limited liability incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) under the BVI Business Companies Act (as revised) (the “BVI Companies Act”). We are proposing to change our jurisdiction of incorporation domesticating as a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware and discontinuing in the BVI (the “Domestication”). To effect the Domestication, we will, upon final approval of our board of directors, file with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware a certificate of corporate domestication and a certificate of incorporation of a Delaware corporation with the name “Satellogic Inc.” (we refer to the domesticated Delaware entity as “Satellogic Delaware”) and will file with the Registrar of Corporate Affairs in the BVI a notice of Satellogic BVI’s continuance out of the BVI, pursuant to which we will be domesticated and continue as a Delaware corporation. On the effective date of the Domestication, each of our currently issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares (“BVI Class A Ordinary Shares”), Class B ordinary shares (“BVI Class B Ordinary Shares,” and together with the BVI Class A Ordinary Shares, our “BVI Ordinary Shares”) and warrants to purchase BVI Class A Ordinary Shares (“BVI Warrants”) will automatically convert by operation of law, on a one-for-one basis, into shares of Satellogic Delaware Class A common stock (“DE Class A Common Stock”), Class B common stock (“DE Class B Common Stock,” and together with the DE Class A Common Stock, the “DE Common Stock”) and warrants to purchase DE Class A Common Stock (“DE Warrants”), respectively. Under BVI law and our current governing documents, we do not need shareholder approval of the Domestication, and our shareholders do not have statutory dissenters’ rights of appraisal as a result of the Domestication.

 

We are not asking you for a proxy and you are requested not to send us a proxy. No shareholder action is required to effect the Domestication. See “The Domestication” — “No Vote or Dissenters’ Rights of Appraisal in the Domestication.”

 

Our BVI Class A Ordinary Shares and BVI Warrants are currently listed on The NASDAQ Capital Market (“Nasdaq”) under the symbols “SATL” and “SATLW”, respectively. The closing price of our BVI Class A Ordinary Shares and BVI Warrants on December 1, 2023 was $1.29 and $0.10, respectively. We will seek, and expect to receive, approval from Nasdaq to trade the DE Class A Common Stock and DE Warrants under the same symbols after the Domestication.

 

We are a “foreign private issuer” as defined under applicable Securities and Exchange Commission rules and an “emerging growth company” as that term is defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”). Immediately following the Domestication, we will no longer be a “foreign private issuer,” but will continue to qualify as an “emerging growth company.” As an “emerging growth company” we are eligible for reduced public disclosure requirements.

 

Investing in our securities involves risks that are described in the “Risk Factors” section beginning on page 12 of this prospectus.

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any other regulatory body has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

This prospectus will not be filed with the British Virgin Islands Registrar of Corporate Affairs. Neither the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission nor the British Virgin Islands Registrar of Corporate Affairs accepts any responsibility for Satellogic Delaware’s financial soundness or the correctness of any of the statements made or opinions expressed in this prospectus.

 

The date of this prospectus is        , 2024.

 

 

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws. The words “anticipates,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predicts,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on us and include statements concerning, among other things, our plans, strategies and prospects, both business and financial. Although we believe our plans, intentions and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot give any assurance that we either will achieve or realize these plans, intentions or expectations. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Generally, statements that are not historical facts, including statements concerning possible or assumed future actions, business strategies, events or results of operations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this prospectus include, but are not limited to, statements about our plans and ability to consummate the Domestication and our future operational and financial performance, including the implementation, market acceptance and success of our business model, funding expansion plans and opportunities and our expectations surrounding capital requirements as we seek to build and launch more satellites. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond our control of the Company, and many factors could cause actual future results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this prospectus, including but not limited to:

Risks, uncertainties and events may cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations described in our forward-looking statements.

The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in “Risk Factors” beginning on page 12 of this prospectus. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and the Company assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. The Company can give no assurance that it will achieve its expectations.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

We are subject to the periodic reporting and other information requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”) as applicable to a “foreign private issuer” (“FPI”), and we will file annual reports and other information from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in accordance with such requirements. Our SEC filings will be available to the public on the internet at a website maintained by the SEC located at www.sec.gov.

We also maintain an Internet website at www.satellogic.com. We will make available, free of charge, the following documents as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC: our Annual Reports on Form 20-F; our reports on Form 6-K; amendments to these documents; and other information as may be required by the SEC. The information contained on, or that may be accessed through, our website is not part of, and is not incorporated into, this prospectus.

We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form F-4 relating to the securities covered by this prospectus. This prospectus is a part of the registration statement and does not contain all of the information in the registration statement. Whenever a reference is made in this prospectus to a contract or other document of ours, please be aware that the reference is only a summary and that you should refer to the exhibits that are a part of the registration statement for a copy of the contract or other document. You may review a copy of the registration statement at the SEC’s public reference room in Washington, D.C., as well as through the SEC’s Internet site.

SUMMARY

This summary provides an overview of selected information. Because this is only a summary, it may not contain all of the information that may be important to you in understanding the Domestication. You should carefully read this entire prospectus, including the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 12 of this prospectus. See also the section of this prospectus entitled “Where You Can Find More Information.” Unless the context otherwise requires, in this prospectus, the terms “the Company,” “Satellogic,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Satellogic Inc. as it currently exists under BVI law and will continue under Delaware law after the Domestication, and the terms “Satellogic BVI” and “Satellogic Delaware” refer to the Company prior to and immediately following the Domestication, respectively.

Satellogic Inc.

Our predecessor in interest was founded in 2010 and we were founded in 2014, to help solve some of the greatest challenges of our time: resource utilization and distribution. From tradeoffs between food, energy and water supplies, to monitoring the impact of natural disasters, global health and humanitarian crises in the midst of a looming climate emergency, access to a continually refreshed source of global, high-quality data is critical to confronting some of the world’s most crucial issues. We are committed to creating a fully automated and searchable EO catalog, and we believe we are uniquely positioned to provide the data that is critical to better inform decision-making aimed at addressing these challenges.

We are the first vertically integrated geospatial analytics company, and we are building the first scalable, fully automated EO platform with the ability, when scaled, to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution, providing accessible and affordable solutions for our customers. We plan to democratize access to geospatial data by providing planetary insights at what we believe to be the lowest cost in the industry, ultimately driving better decision-making across a broad range of industries including agriculture, forestry, energy, financial services, and cartography.

We have created a highly scalable, vertically integrated and competitive operating model. We design the core components that go into developing and manufacturing our satellites to be mission specific. We manufacture many of our components, but we also partner with third parties to manufacture certain other components to our design specifications. We assemble, integrate and test the components and satellites in our facilities. This vertical integration provides a significant cost advantage, enabling us to produce and launch satellites for less than one-tenth the cost of our competitors on average. Additionally, we own all our key intellectual property, and our patented technology allows us to capture approximately 10x more imagery than our competitors on average. Taken together, we are achieving over 60x better unit economics than our closest peers in the NewSpace sector and more than 100x better unit economics than legacy competitors. Additionally, we are well positioned to compete effectively in the existing EO market that is currently supply-constrained and consists primarily of government and defense and intelligence (“D&I”) customers.

Our strategy is focused along three unique business lines: Asset Monitoring, Constellation-as-a-Service (“CaaS”), and Space Systems. These business lines will allow us to serve the existing EO market and begin to democratize access to a host of new EO customers.

In August 2023, we strategically realigned our business in an effort to capture high value opportunities in the U.S. market, focusing resources on what we believe to be our highest growth opportunities, while sustaining core customers and operating a lean organization.

We continue to expect that our Asset Monitoring business will represent the most predictable revenue stream, and we anticipate that it will be among the primary drivers of the business going forward. Every day, both government and commercial customers task our satellites around the world to monitor assets and to keep up with their changing reality. D&I customers look at ports, airfields or build-up of military equipment; mining companies monitor the environmental impact of their operations; and insurance companies are interested in building baselines and quickly assessing property damage as it occurs. With the largest available sub-meter capacity, high quality imagery and superior unit economics, we can support a growing number of customers around the world.

Our CaaS business – that we previously referred to as Dedicated Satellite Constellation – offers governments around the world the ability to control satellites on top of specific areas of interest. We anticipate that our CaaS line of business will provide us with a strong recurring-revenue base in the government and D&I market over time.

In 2022, we established Space Systems, effectively satellite sales and support, to meet the needs of customers interested in our technology and capability that have a need or desire to own the satellites being utilized to capture imagery. As such, Space Systems leverages our ability to quickly build and launch high quality, sub-meter satellites at a low cost to meet the needs of our customers. We have built a vertically integrated satellite manufacturing capability that is critical in achieving our low-CAPEX cost and ultimately reaching our unit-economic targets for our Asset Monitoring business. Vertical integration enables us to manage our supply chain and navigate evolving global supply challenges with minimal adverse impact to our satellite manufacturing schedule. Our fast satellite build-to-launch cycles can progress from purchase order to commissioning in orbit in as little as eight months.

Currently, our revenue is derived from selling imagery through our Asset Monitoring and CaaS lines of business.

The mailing address of the Company’s principal executive offices is Ruta 8 Km 17,500, Edificio 300 Oficina 324 Zonamerica Montevideo, 91600, Uruguay.

The Domestication

We intend to change our jurisdiction of incorporation from the BVI to Delaware, and we refer to this change as the “Domestication.” To effect the Domestication, we will, upon final approval of our Board of Directors, file a notice of continuation out of the BVI with the British Virgin Islands Registrar of Corporate Affairs and file a certificate of incorporation and a certificate of corporate domestication with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. The Domestication does not require shareholder approval. We anticipate that the Domestication will become effective in early 2024, following the effectiveness of this Registration Statement and, upon the filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware a certificate of corporate domestication and a certificate of incorporation of Satellogic Delaware and the filing with the Registrar of Corporate Affairs in the BVI of a notice of Satellogic BVI’s continuance (the “Effective Time”). See “Description of Capital Stock”—“Effective Time” below for additional information.

Comparison of Shareholder Rights

The Domestication will change our jurisdiction of incorporation from the British Virgin Islands to the State of Delaware and, as a result, our organizational documents will change and will be governed by Delaware law rather than BVI law. There are significant differences between the governing corporate law of Satellogic BVI and Satellogic Delaware. These differences are described in more detail under “Description of Capital Stock”—“Comparison of Rights” below. However, our business, assets and liabilities on a consolidated basis, as well as our board of directors, executive officers, principal business locations (other than our principal executive office) and fiscal year, will not change as a result of the Domestication.

Share Exchange

We are currently authorized to issue an unlimited number of BVI Class A Ordinary Shares with a par value of $0.0001 per share. Holders of BVI Class A Ordinary Shares are entitled to one vote for each share. As of November 15, 2023, there were 78,253,702 shares of Class A common stock issued and outstanding.

We are also authorized to issue unlimited BVI Class B Ordinary Shares with a par value of $0.0001 per share. Holders of BVI Class B Ordinary Shares are entitled to 1.472467906 votes per share. Satellogic’s founder and Chief Executive Officer owns 13,582,642 BVI Class B Ordinary Shares, representing 100% of the voting power of the BVI Class B Ordinary Shares.

In addition, as of the date hereof, there are issued and outstanding 41,464,693 BVI Warrants, comprised of (i) 533,333 BVI Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants having an exercise price of $8.63 per share (the “$8.63 Warrants”), (ii) 7,500,000 BVI Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants having an exercise price of $10.00 per share (the “$10.00 Liberty Warrants”), (iii) 15,000,000 BVI Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants having an exercise price of $15.00 per share (the “$15.00 Liberty Warrants”), (iv) 2,500,000 BVI Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants having an exercise price of $20.00 per share (the “PIPE Warrants”) and (v) 15,931,360 BVI Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of warrants having an exercise price of $2.51635975 per share (the “Columbia Warrants”). See “Description of Capital Stock”—“Comparison of Rights”—“Shares Reserved for Future Issuances” for additional information.

In connection with the Domestication, each BVI Class A Ordinary Share and BVI Class B Ordinary Share of Satellogic BVI that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time will automatically convert into one share of DE Class A Common Stock and DE Class B Common Stock, respectively, of Satellogic Delaware. Similarly, outstanding options, warrants and other rights to acquire Satellogic BVI shares will become options, warrants or rights to acquire the corresponding shares of stock of Satellogic Delaware, including our outstanding BVI Warrants, which will convert into DE Warrants. It will not be necessary for shareholders of Satellogic BVI who currently hold share certificates to exchange their existing share certificates for certificates of shares of common stock of Satellogic Delaware in connection with the Domestication. See “The Domestication”—“Domestication Share Conversion” below.

Reasons for the Domestication

Our board of directors believes that the Domestication will, among other things:

Risk Factor Summary

An investment in the ordinary shares of Satellogic BVI as well as in the Satellogic DE Common Stock will involve risks. Please review the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 12 of this prospectus. The occurrence of one or more of the events or circumstances discussed or referenced below or in that section, alone or in combination with other events or circumstances, may have a material adverse effective on the Company:

Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Domestication

See “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Domestication” for more information.

No Vote or Dissenters’ Rights of Appraisal in the Domestication

Under BVI law and the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of Satellogic BVI (the “Satellogic BVI Articles”), we do not need shareholder approval of the Domestication, and our shareholders do not have statutory dissenters’ rights of appraisal or any other appraisal rights as a result of the Domestication. See “The Domestication”—“No Vote or Dissenters’ Rights of Appraisal in the Domestication.”

Summary Financial Data

Consolidated statement of operations data:

Consolidated balance sheet data

(in thousands of US dollars)

RISK FACTORS

Any investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk, including the risks described below. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only risks and uncertainties we face. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impair our business operations. If any of the following risks actually occur, our business, financial condition and results of operations could suffer. As a result, the trading price of our shares could decline, perhaps significantly, and you could lose all or part of your investment. The risks discussed below also include forward-looking statements and our actual results may differ substantially from those discussed in these forward-looking statements. See the section entitled “Forward-Looking Statements.”

RISKS RELATING TO THE CHANGE IN OUR PLACE OF INCORPORATION

Currently, our organizational documents are governed by BVI law but upon effectiveness of the Domestication, they will be governed by Delaware law.

Upon effectiveness of the Domestication, our organizational documents will change and will be governed by Delaware law rather than BVI law. Those new organizational documents and Delaware law contain provisions that differ in some respects from those in our current organizational documents and BVI law. For a more detailed description of how the organizational documents may differ in relation to the stock held by you, please see “Description of Capital Stock”—“Comparison of Rights” in this prospectus. The Satellogic BVI Articles are attached as Appendix A to this prospectus, and forms of the new certificate of incorporation and bylaws of Satellogic Delaware are attached as Appendix B and Appendix C, respectively, to this prospectus. We urge you to read them.

In connection with the Domestication, we will lose our FPI status, which will require us to comply with the Exchange Act’s domestic reporting regime and cause us to incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses.

Prior to the effectiveness of the Domestication, we qualify as an FPI and therefore we are not required to comply with all of the periodic disclosure and current reporting requirements of the Exchange Act applicable to U.S. domestic issuers. Upon the effectiveness of the Domestication, we will no longer be an FPI, which will require us to comply with all of the periodic disclosure and current reporting requirements of the Exchange Act applicable to U.S. domestic issuers. In particular, we will be required to comply with the Exchange Act reporting and other requirements applicable to U.S. domestic issuers, which are more detailed and extensive than the requirements for FPIs. We will also be required to make changes in our corporate governance practices in accordance with various SEC and Nasdaq rules. The regulatory and compliance costs to us under U.S. securities laws to comply with the reporting requirements applicable to a U.S. domestic issuer will likely be significantly higher than the cost we have historically incurred as an FPI. As a result, we expect that the loss of FPI status will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities highly time consuming and costly. We expect that complying with the rules and regulations applicable to U.S. domestic issuers will make it more difficult and expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain coverage. These rules and regulations could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified members of our Board of Directors and members of our senior management. 

Following the Domestication, certain provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of our company more difficult, limit attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove members of our Board of Directors or current management and may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

Following the effectiveness of the Domestication, our Delaware certificate of incorporation and bylaws will contain certain provisions that could delay or prevent a change in control of our company. These provisions could also make it difficult for stockholders to elect directors that are not nominated by the current members of our Board of Directors or take other corporate actions, including effecting changes in our management. These provisions include:

These provisions may prohibit or deter large stockholders, in particular those owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock, from merging or combining with us for a certain period of time.

The anticipated benefits of the Domestication are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, and may not materialize.

Acquiring D&I related governmental contracts, including D&I contracts with U.S. governmental agencies, is part of our growth strategy. We anticipate that the Domestication will reduce barriers to our pursuit of D&I-related contracts with U.S. governmental customers. However, our ability to obtain defense-related contracts with U.S. governmental customers is subject to numerous risks, including among others, the demand for EO services (or the demand for their incorporation into defense programs), our ability to comply with laws, regulations and rules applicable to U.S. governmental customers designed to mitigate against the potential for undue foreign ownership control and ownership, including our ability to make changes to our management and corporate governance structure in order to comply with such laws, rules and regulations, changes in government administration and national priorities, competition from other suppliers, and consolidation amongst U.S. defense industry contractors, which may decrease our relative bargaining power. Any such adverse impact to our ability to successfully obtain D&I-related contracts with U.S. governmental agencies following the Domestication may negatively impact our business and financial condition.

The Domestication may result in adverse tax consequences for you.

If you are a U.S. Holder (as defined in “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Domestication” below) of our BVI Ordinary Shares or BVI Warrants, you may be subject to U.S. federal income tax as a result of the Domestication. If you are a non-U.S. Holder (as defined in “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Domestication” below) of our BVI Ordinary Shares or BVI Warrants, you may become subject to withholding tax on dividends paid on the DE Common Stock subsequent to the Effective Time. Please read the following information which provides more detail on the potential tax consequences of the Domestication.

As discussed more fully under “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Domestication” below, it is intended that the Domestication will constitute a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a)(1)(F) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). Assuming the Domestication so qualifies, and subject to the passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”) rules discussed below and under “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Domestication,” U.S. Holders will be subject to Section 367(b) of the Code and, as a result:

The Company does not expect to have significant cumulative earnings and profits, if any, on the date of the Domestication. Notwithstanding the U.S. federal income tax consequences of the Domestication discussed above, if the Company is classified as a PFIC, proposed Treasury Regulations under Section 1291(f) of the Code (which have a retroactive effective date), if finalized in their current form, generally would require a U.S. Holder to recognize gain on the conversion of BVI Ordinary Shares or BVI Warrants into DE Common Stock or DE Warrants pursuant to the Domestication unless, in the case of BVI Ordinary Shares, such U.S. Holder has made certain tax elections with respect to such shares. A U.S. Holder cannot currently make the aforementioned elections with respect to warrants, and the application of the PFIC rules to the warrants is unclear. We believe that we have not been classified as a PFIC in any taxable year prior to 2023. However, we believe we may be classified as a PFIC for our 2023 taxable year. Whether or not we are PFIC for a taxable year will depend on the composition of our income and assets during such taxable year and can only be determined at the end of the taxable year. For a more complete discussion of the potential application of the PFIC rules to U.S. Holders as a result of the Domestication, see the section entitled “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Domestication.”

Each U.S. Holder of ordinary shares or warrants is urged to consult its own tax advisor concerning the potential application of the PFIC rules, including the proposed Treasury Regulations, to the conversion of BVI Ordinary Shares and BVI Warrants into DE Common Stock and DE Warrants pursuant to the Domestication.

Additionally, the Domestication may cause non-U.S. Holders to become subject to U.S. federal income withholding taxes on any amounts treated as dividends paid in respect of such non-U.S. Holder’s Common Stock after the Domestication.

The tax consequences of the Domestication are complex and will depend on a holder’s particular circumstances. All holders are urged to consult their tax advisors regarding the tax consequences to them of the Domestication, including the applicability and effect of U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. tax laws. For a more complete discussion of the U.S. federal income tax considerations of the Domestication, see the section entitled “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Domestication.”

Our Satellogic Delaware certificate of incorporation designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders' ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees.

Our Satellogic Delaware certificate of incorporation will provide that, with certain limited exceptions, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will be the sole and exclusive forum for any stockholder (including any beneficial owner) to bring (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of fiduciary duty owed by any director or officer of the Company owed to us or our stockholders, creditors or other constituents, (iii) any action asserting a claim against us or any director or officer of the Company arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or our Satellogic Delaware certificate of incorporation or our Satellogic Delaware bylaws, or (iv) any action asserting a claim against the Company or any director or officer of the Company governed by the internal affairs doctrine. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock is deemed to have received notice of and consented to the foregoing provisions. This choice of forum provision may limit a stockholder's ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and employees. Alternatively, if a court were to find this choice of forum provision inapplicable to, or unenforceable in respect of, one or more of the specified types of actions or proceedings, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters in other jurisdictions, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Risk Related to Our Business and Industry

We are an early stage company that has not demonstrated a sustained ability to generate revenues. If we do not generate revenues as expected, our financial condition will be materially and adversely affected.

Since inception, we have devoted substantially all of our resources to designing, building and developing our satellites and satellite components and technology, enhancing our geospatial analytics capabilities and services, planning our business, raising capital and providing general and administrative support for these operations. As a relatively new business, we have not demonstrated a sustained ability to generate sufficient revenue from our EO services or conduct sufficient sales and marketing activities necessary for successful commercialization of our geospatial data and analytics platform. Additionally, we recently established our Space Systems business line, which will allow us to sell our satellites directly to customers, but for which we have no demonstrated track record of revenues. Consequently, any assessment a reader makes about our current business, future success or viability may not be as accurate as it could be if we had a longer operating history. Further, our limited financial track record, without meaningful revenue from our expected future principal business, is of limited reference value for an assessment of our business and future prospects.

As of September 30, 2023, we have an accumulated deficit of $270.3 million. For the nine months ended September 30, 2023, we had net cash used in operating activities of $36.1 million. As of September 30, 2023, we had cash and cash equivalents of $31.0 million. We will continue to incur losses and negative operating cash flows each quarter until we are able to onboard a sufficient number of customers and contracts, and launch and scale a sufficient number of our constellation of satellites, to become profitable and generate positive operating cash flows. As we work to transition from initial start-up activities to commercial production and sales, it is difficult to forecast our future results. We have limited insight into trends that may emerge and affect our business, including our ability to attract and retain customers and the competition we will face. If our revenue grows slower than we anticipate or we otherwise fall materially short of our forecasts and expectations, we may not be able to achieve profitability and positive operating cash flows and our financial condition will be materially and adversely affected which could cause our stock price to decline and investors to lose confidence in us.

The success of our business will be highly dependent on our ability to effectively market and sell our EO services and to convert contracted revenues and our pipeline of potential contracts into actual revenues, which can be a costly process.

To date, we have relied heavily on equity and debt financing to fund our business and operations and are currently generating revenue from agreements with a commercial space technology customer and a governmental customer as well as from a base of smaller customer contracts. Since initially launching 13 of our satellites in late 2020, we now have a fleet of 25 satellites in orbit and have significantly accelerated our sales and marketing efforts to government D&I agencies, particularly in non-U.S. countries. Our success will be highly dependent on our ability to convert our significant pipeline of potential contracts into recognized revenues. If we fail to sign contracts with at least some portion of the customers for large projects currently envisaged in our pipeline, particularly over the next couple of years when any large contract would significantly impact our revenues and financial results and grow a sufficient number of contracts with such customers, our business, financial condition and results of operations will be materially and adversely affected.

Our ability to establish and expand our customer relationships and sell our EO services is subject to a number of factors, including our ability to overcome concerns by customers relating to our lack of experience or track record in providing EO services to customers in the same industry or at all, competition from larger, more experienced service providers, our customers’ satisfaction or dissatisfaction with our satellites and/or our EO services, the frequency and severity of errors or disruptions in our satellites, reliability of our satellites and the effects of general economic conditions, competitive offerings or alternatives, reductions in our customers’ spending levels, and pricing.

In addition, continued concerns regarding our minor operations in China could impact our ability to win bids from, or enter into customer contracts with, certain government agencies or commercial customers.

Our sales growth is dependent upon our ability to implement sophisticated and potentially costly sales and marketing initiatives. These initiatives may not be effective in generating sales, and in such event our results of operations will be harmed. In the near term, we intend to derive substantially all our revenues from providing our EO services to international government D&I agencies, and in the longer-term, intend to expand our operations to serve commercial customers in a variety of markets and industries. We cannot give any assurance that we will be able to secure future business or that the potential uses for our EO services in commercial applications will develop. It is difficult to predict our future revenues and appropriately budget for our expenses, and we have limited insight into trends that may emerge and affect our business. If actual results do not improve or improve more slowly than we anticipate, our operating results, prospects and financial position could be materially and adversely affected.

The loss of one or more of our largest customers could adversely affect our results of operations.

We are dependent on a small number of customers for a large portion of our revenue, such as a commercial space technology customer and a governmental customer. A significant decrease in the sales to or loss of any of our major customers would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. In 2022, we had two customers that each accounted for more than 10% of our total revenue and in 2021, we had one customer that accounted for 10% of our total revenue. Customers in the defense market generally purchase our EO services in connection with government programs that have a limited duration, leading to fluctuating sales to any particular customer in this market from year to year. If we lose one or more of our major enterprise or government customers, or if we experience a significant reduction in business from one or more major enterprise or government customers, there is no assurance that we would be able to quickly replace those customers to generate comparable revenue, which could harm our operating results and profitability.

Our sales efforts involve considerable time and expense, and our sales cycle is long and unpredictable for many of our portfolio offerings.

Our results of operations may fluctuate, in part, because of the intensive nature of our sales efforts and the length and unpredictability of our sales cycle. As part of our sales efforts, we invest considerable time and expense evaluating the specific needs and requirements of our potential customers, which consist largely of government agencies and educating these potential customers about the technical capabilities and value of our satellites and our EO services and the better unit economics we can offer, which in the case of government agencies can be less important. In addition, we have only recently begun to grow our sales team, and our sales efforts have historically depended on the significant involvement of our senior management team. Given the nature of the potential customers, the length of our sales cycle tends to be long and varies substantially from customer to customer. In addition, the timing and cycle of contract bidding processes particularly for government contracts can be very unpredictable and can change or lengthen on very little notice and for reasons outside of our control. Because decisions to purchase our EO services involve significant financial commitments, potential customers generally evaluate our products and technologies at multiple levels within their organizations, each of which often have specific requirements, and typically involve senior officials and management, and multiple internal approvals. We could spend substantial time, effort, and money in our sales efforts without producing any sales. If our sales efforts to a potential customer do not result in sufficient revenue to justify our investments, our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

We may face risks and uncertainties associated with defense-related contracts, which may have a material adverse effect on our business.

We are still an early-stage company and only began to recognize revenues in 2021. Acquiring defense-related governmental contracts, such as the three-year agreement we entered into with the government of Albania, is part of our growth strategy. The acquisition of defense-related or governmental customers results in our EO services being incorporated into defense programs. Whether such defense or governmental contracts are directly with the U.S. government, a foreign government (including Albania), or one of their respective agencies, or indirectly as a subcontractor or team member, our contracts and subcontracts are or will be subject to special risks. For example:

While we intend to effect the Domestication in order to better position ourselves to execute our realigned strategic focus on the U.S. market, including competing for U.S. government D&I-related contracts, there can be no assurance that the Domestication will allow us to successfully obtain any such contracts, nor will it resolve the foregoing risks.

Our pricing structure may not be optimal and may require adjustments over time.

The pricing of our products and services will vary depending on the specific application and customer specifications. Given the complexity in determining pricing structures for our EO services, we may experience difficulty determining the appropriate price structure for our products and services. This may result in missed revenue opportunities and lower than expected margins if we price our products and services too low, or in us losing bids if we price our products and services too high. In addition, we expect that we may need to change our pricing model from time to time, including as a result of competition, global economic conditions, reductions in our customers’ spending levels generally, changes in product mix, pricing studies or changes in how information technology infrastructure is broadly consumed. Similarly, as we introduce new products and services, or as a result of the evolution of our existing products and services, we may have difficulty determining the appropriate price structure for our products and services. In addition, as new and existing competitors introduce new products or services that compete with ours, or revise their pricing structures, we may be unable to attract new customers at the same price or based on the same pricing model as we have used historically. Moreover, customers may demand price concessions. As a result, we may be required from time to time to revise our pricing structure or reduce our prices, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

If we are unable to scale production of our satellites as planned, our business and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

Our business plan is based on us building out our constellation of satellites to 200+ satellites. Our ability to achieve our production plans and deliver our products and services to our customers will depend upon many factors, including our ability to:

We may be unable to prepare and operate high throughput production facilities for production within our planned timeframes, in a cost-effective manner or at all due to a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, a failure to acquire or lease a production facility, a stoppage of construction as a result of public health emergencies such as COVID-19, geopolitical conflicts, insufficiency of utility infrastructure, unexpected construction problems, permitting and other regulatory issues, severe weather, labor disputes, and issues with subcontractors or vendors. In addition, the cost to scale satellite production may be more than we are currently forecasting based on higher plant acquisition and build out costs, higher labor costs, increases in plant and equipment costs, increased transportation and supply chain costs and higher costs to manage and administer the plant and supply chain. We recently delayed the launch of our previously discussed high-throughput plant in the Netherlands in favor of upgrading our existing manufacturing facility in Uruguay, in order to handle our current production needs. Although plans for the launch of this plant are currently pending, if we resume the launch of the Netherlands plant, we may be subject to such factors discussed above. Any delay or inability to build and launch satellites as we resume efforts to scale satellite production, including at the expected cost, could significantly delay or reduce expected revenue, profitability and cash flow. No assurance can be given that construction of the satellites will be completed on time or at all, or as to whether we will have sufficient funds available to complete construction if we experience unexpected delays or costs.

Our expansion into new business lines and services may result in unforeseen risks, challenges and uncertainties.

As of 2022, as a part of our go-to-market strategy, we added a new line of business, Space Systems, which will allow us to sell our satellites directly to select customers for whom satellite ownership is a priority. The addition of the Space Systems business line may result in unforeseen risks, challenges, and uncertainties. We may incur additional capital expenditure to support the expansion of our business and there is no guarantee that we will increase our revenues as a result of the Space Systems business line. Our failure to adequately manage costs and expenses and evaluate consumer demands with respect to the direct purchase of satellites by customers could materially and adversely affect the prospects of us achieving overall profitability through the Space Systems business line, which may require significant managerial, financial, operational and other resources. We may also face additional regulatory, legal and counterparty risks as a result of our addition of the Space Systems business line. If we fail to manage the development of this new business line successfully, our growth potential, business and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.

We are dependent on third parties to transport and launch our satellites into space and any delay could have a material and adverse impact on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

We are dependent on third parties to transport our satellites and ground station equipment around the world and to launch and deliver our satellites into space. Currently there are only a few companies who offer launch services, including SpaceX, with whom we have entered into the Rideshare Multi-Launch Agreement, signed with SpaceX in April 2022 (the “SpaceX Agreement”). We require timely and affordable access to launch services that meet our business and technical requirements to deploy our satellite constellation. If the number of companies offering launch services or the number of launches does not grow in the future or there is a consolidation among companies who offer these services, this could result in a shortage of space on these launch vehicles, which may cause prices to increase, or result in our inability to secure space on a launch vehicle and, as a result, delays in our launch schedule. Additionally, adverse events with respect to our launch service providers, such as satellite launch failures or financial difficulties (which some of these providers have previously experienced), could result in increased costs or delays in the launch of our satellites. Moreover, a shortage of transportation providers for our satellites and ground station equipment may cause our costs to increase, delays in our ability to launch our satellites and gaps in our service coverage, and adversely affect our ability to meet customer demand. Any of these situations could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Further, in the event that a launch is delayed, our timing for recognition of revenue may be impacted depending on the length of the delay and the nature of our impacted customer contracts. While such delays are common in the space industry, any delay in a launch could result in a delay in recognizing revenue which could materially and adversely impact our financial statements or result in negative impacts to our earnings during a specified time period, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Although we design and build our satellites and many of our key satellite components, we rely on third party vendors and manufacturers to build and provide certain satellite components, products or services and the inability of these vendors and manufacturers to meet our needs could have a material adverse effect on our business.

We design the core components that go into developing and manufacturing our satellites to be mission specific, partner with third parties to manufacture those components for us and then assemble, integrate and test the components and satellites in our own facilities (or support customers’ assembly, integration and testing in such customers’ facilities). Our ability to manage our production line and supply of raw materials and components to meet production goals may be constrained by our suppliers’ inability to scale production. An inability to grow the number of satellites we have in orbit could jeopardize our ability to fulfill obligations under customer contracts, which could, in turn, result in reduced sales, contract penalties or terminations and damage to customer relationships and our reputation, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We are impacted by increases in the prices of raw materials used in the production of our satellites. We monitor sources of supply in an effort to ensure that adequate raw materials and other components and supplies are available. Prolonged disruptions in the supply of any of our key raw materials or components, difficulty completing qualification of new sources of supply or implementing use of replacement materials, components or new sources of supply, or a continuing increase in the prices of raw materials, energy or components, including as a result of interest rate volatility, rising interest rates and geopolitical conditions could have a material adverse effect on our operating results, financial condition, and cash flows. Moreover, the imposition of tariffs or import/export restrictions on raw materials or supplied components could have a material adverse effect on our operations.

In addition, we cannot give any assurance that our suppliers have obtained and will be able to obtain or maintain all licenses, permits and approvals necessary for their operations to comply with all applicable laws and regulations, and failure to do so by them may lead to interruption in their business operations, which in turn may result in shortages of components supplied to us.

We depend on ground station and cloud-based computing infrastructure operated by third parties for value added services, and any errors, disruption, performance problems or failure in their or our operational infrastructure could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We rely on the technology, infrastructure, and software applications, including software-as-a-service offerings, of certain third parties, such as ground station infrastructure operated by two separate third-party vendors, in order to launch and deliver our satellites into space and operate some or all of certain key features or functions of our business, including deployment of our cloud-based imagery services and other geospatial and data analytic services. We do not have control over the operations of the facilities of the third parties that we use. If any of these third-party services experience errors, disruptions, security issues, or other performance deficiencies, if they are updated such that they become incompatible, if these services, software, or hardware fail or become unavailable due to extended outages, interruptions, defects, or otherwise, or if they are no longer available on commercially reasonable terms or prices (or at all), these issues could result in errors or defects in the delivery of our EO services, or our ability to manage our operations could be interrupted until equivalent services or technology, if available, are identified, procured, and implemented, all of which may take significant time and resources, increase our costs, and could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our customer contracts may require us to meet certain minimum service requirements which can vary significantly from customer to customer. Any failure to meet our service requirements may materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our agreements with customers may provide for minimum service level commitments, which contain specifications regarding the availability and performance of our products and services such as assured access and guaranteed capacity. Any failure of or disruption to our infrastructure could impact the performance of our satellites and the availability of our products and services to our customers. Although our customers will expect some level of potential disruption based on the product specifications and general operational conditions, if we are unable to meet any minimum service requirements or if we suffer extended periods of poor performance or unavailability of our products and services, we may lose customer contracts and suffer reputational harm which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Market acceptance of our EO services may not continue, and our business is dependent upon our ability to keep pace with the latest technological changes.

The market for our EO services is characterized by rapid technological change and evolving industry standards. Failure to respond in a timely and cost-effective way to these technological developments could have a material adverse effect on our business and operating results. As a result, our success will depend, in part, on our ability to develop and market service offerings that respond in a timely manner to the technological advances and needs of our customers, and evolving industry standards. In addition, although in the near term, we intend to derive substantial revenues from providing EO services to government D&I agencies, in the longer-term, we intend to expand our operations to serve commercial customers in a variety of markets and industries and through a wide range of applications.

We believe that, in order to remain competitive in the future, we will need to continue to invest significant financial resources to improve the technology of our existing products and services and develop new products and services both for existing applications and new commercial applications, including through internal research and development (“R&D”), acquisitions and joint ventures or other collaboration arrangements. These expenditures could divert our attention and resources from other projects, and we cannot be sure that these expenditures will ultimately lead to the timely development of new product or service offerings and technologies, or identification of and expansion into new markets and applications. In addition, following the establishment of our Space Systems business line, we are increasingly reliant on our ability to build and launch satellites quickly, in large volumes and at low cost. Our profitability will be dependent on our competitiveness in this area, as our competitors advance their own ability to build and launch satellites, at greater speeds, in greater volumes, and at lower costs.

Due to the design complexity of our products and services, we may, in the future, experience delays in completing the development and introduction of new or enhanced products or product applications. Any such delays could result in increased costs of development or deflect resources from other projects. In addition, there can be no assurance that the market for our EO services will develop or continue to expand or that we will be successful in identifying new markets or applications as we currently anticipate. The failure of our technology to gain market acceptance could significantly reduce our planned revenues and harm our business. Market acceptance of our products and services depends on a number of factors, including the quality, scope, timeliness, sophistication, and price of substitute products and services. We cannot be sure that our competitors will not develop competing technologies that gain market acceptance in advance of our technologies or develop technologies that better meet the needs of our customers. The possibility exists that our competitors might develop new technology or offerings that might cause our existing technology and offerings to become obsolete. If we fail to develop, manufacture, and market innovative technologies that enable our products and services to meet customers’ requirements or our technologies fail to achieve market acceptance more rapidly as compared to our competitors, our ability to procure new contracts could be negatively impacted and our business may not continue to grow in line with expectations or at all. If we are unable to achieve sustained growth, we may be unable to execute our business strategy, expand our business or fund other liquidity needs and our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

We may not be able to identify suitable acquisition candidates or consummate acquisitions on acceptable terms, or we may be unable to successfully integrate acquisitions, which could disrupt our operations and materially and adversely impact our business and operating results.

We intend to continue to pursue acquisitions of complementary technologies, products and businesses as a component of our growth strategy. Acquisitions involve certain known and unknown risks that could cause our sales growth or operating results to differ from our expectations. For example:

In addition, our acquisition strategy may divert management’s attention away from our existing business, resulting in the loss of key customers or employees, and expose us to unanticipated problems or legal liabilities, including responsibility as a successor for undisclosed or contingent liabilities of acquired businesses or assets.

If we fail to effectively conduct due diligence on our potential targets, for example, we may not identify problems at target companies or we may fail to recognize incompatibilities or other obstacles to successful integration. Our inability to successfully integrate future acquisitions could impede us from realizing all of the benefits of those acquisitions and could materially weaken our business operations. The integration process may disrupt our business and, if new technologies, products or businesses are not implemented effectively, may preclude the realization of the full benefits expected by us and could harm our results of operations. In addition, the overall integration of new technologies, products or businesses may result in unanticipated problems, expenses, liabilities and competitive responses.

Further, even if the operations of an acquisition are integrated successfully, we may not realize the full benefits of the acquisition, including the synergies, cost savings or growth opportunities that we expect. These benefits may not be achieved within the anticipated time frame, or at all. Further, acquisitions may cause us to issue securities that would dilute our current stockholders’ ownership percentage, use a substantial portion of our cash resources, experience volatility in earnings due to changes in contingent consideration related to acquisition earn-out liability estimates or become subject to litigation.

We face competition for EO services which may limit our ability to gain market share.

We operate in the NewSpace sector, which refers to the increased commercialization and privatization of the space sector. Competition in our imagery services business is highly diverse, and while our competitors offer different products, there is often competition for contracts that are part of governmental budgets. The major existing and potential competitors for our EO services include commercial satellite imagery companies, state-owned imagery providers, aerial imagery companies, free sources of imagery and unmanned aerial vehicles. We also face competition from companies that provide geospatial data analytic information and services to the U.S. government, including defense prime contractors.

We plan to leverage our superior unit economics and put enough satellites in orbit to remap the entire surface of the earth in high-resolution on a daily basis and, in doing so expect to deliver our data to customers at near zero marginal cost which we believe will provide us with a competitive advantage against an existing EO market that is currently supply-constrained. However, our competitors or potential competitors could, in the future, offer satellite-based imagery or other products and services with more attractive features than our products and services which could outweigh the lower cost of our products and services. Our competitors could introduce new fleets of satellites, experience fewer delays in the rollout of new satellites, and could be awarded government contracts for which we are competing. The emergence of new remote imaging technologies or the continued growth of low-cost imaging satellites could negatively affect our sales efforts. More importantly, if competitors develop and launch satellites or other imagery-content sources with more advanced capabilities and technologies than ours, or offer products and services at lower prices than ours, our business and results of operations could be harmed.

The U.S. government and foreign governments may develop, construct, launch and operate their own imagery satellites, which could reduce their need to rely on us and other commercial suppliers. In addition, such governments could sell or provide free of charge imagery from their satellites and thereby compete with our EO services. Also, governments may at times make our imagery freely available for humanitarian purposes, which could impair our revenue growth with non-governmental organizations.

In addition, some of our international competitors currently benefit from, and others may benefit in the future from, subsidies and other protective measures implemented by their home countries where governments are providing financial support, including significant investments in the development of new technologies. Government support of this nature greatly reduces the commercial risks associated with satellite development activities for these competitors. This market environment may result in increased pressures on our pricing and other competitive factors. To that end, we intend to effect the Domestication in order to better position ourselves to compete for U.S. government D&I-related contracts. However, there can be no assurance that the Domestication will allow us to successfully obtain any such contracts, nor will it necessarily allow us to benefit from protective measures relating to domicile in the United States.

Some of our competitors have made or could make acquisitions of businesses that allow them to offer more competitive and comprehensive solutions. As a result of such acquisitions, our current or potential competitors may be able to accelerate the adoption of new technologies that better address customer needs, devote greater resources to bring these products and services to market, initiate or withstand substantial price competition, or develop and expand their product and service offerings more quickly than us. These competitive pressures in our market or our failure to compete effectively may result in fewer orders and reduced revenue and margins and impair our ability to acquire market share. In addition, it is possible that industry consolidation may impact customers’ perceptions of the viability of smaller or even mid-size companies and consequently customers’ willingness to purchase from such firms.

We may not compete successfully against our current or potential competitors. If we are unable to compete successfully, or if competing successfully requires us to take costly actions in response to the actions of our competitors, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. In addition, companies competing with us may have an entirely different pricing or distribution model from ours. Increased competition could result in fewer customer contracts, price reductions, reduced margins, and inability to gain market share, any of which could harm our business and results of operations.

We may fail to foresee challenges with international operations or the regulatory environment in certain markets may unexpectedly change.

Our future success will depend heavily upon our ability to oversee production operations at facilities and locations outside of our current countries of operation and management’s day-to-day oversight. Our international operations expose us to numerous challenges and risks including, but not limited to, adverse political, regulatory, legislative, and economic conditions in various jurisdictions; costs of complying with varying governmental regulations; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; and difficulties in protecting intellectual property rights in foreign countries. Unforeseen challenges in sustaining efficient operations, decreases in product quality, language and cultural differences, political and economic unrest, unexpected changes in the regulatory environment or theft of intellectual property from our satellite production facilities, or other yet-undiscovered challenges, could materially and adversely affect us, our business, financial position, and results of operations.

Our products and services are complex and could have unknown defects or errors, which may increase our costs, harm our reputation with customers, give rise to costly litigation, or divert our or our customers’ resources from other purposes.

We employ sophisticated design and testing processes and practices. Nevertheless, our products and services may contain defects or errors, or experience performance problems when first introduced, when new versions or enhancements are released, or even after these products have been in use for a period of time. Our systems may not be successfully implemented, pass required acceptance criteria, or operate or give the desired output, or it may not be able to detect and fix all defects in our satellites and our EO services, or resolve any delays or availability issues in the launch services we procure. These problems could result in expensive and time-consuming design modifications, delays in the introduction of new products or enhancements, significant increases in our service and maintenance costs, termination of contracts for convenience or cause, diversion of our personnel’s attention from our product development efforts, exposure to liability for damages, damaged customer relationships, and harm to our reputation, any of which could materially and adversely harm our results of operations. In addition, increased development costs could be substantial.

Our employees or others acting on our behalf may engage in misconduct or other improper activities, which could cause us to lose contracts or incur costs.

We are exposed to the risk that employee fraud or other misconduct from our employees or others acting on our behalf could occur. Misconduct by employees or others could include intentional failures to comply with the various regulatory regimes to which we are subject, engaging in unauthorized activities, insider threats to our cybersecurity, or falsifying records relating to the success or failure of our launches, satellites or products and services generally. Misconduct by our employees or others acting on our behalf could also involve the improper use of our customers’ sensitive or classified information, which could result in regulatory sanctions against us, serious harm to our reputation or a loss of contracts and a reduction in revenues or cause us to incur costs to respond to any related governmental inquiries. We have adopted policies and procedures designed to prevent misconduct; however, it is not always possible to deter misconduct, and the precautions we take to prevent and detect this activity may not be effective in controlling unknown or unmanaged risks or losses, which could cause us to lose contracts or cause a reduction in revenues. In addition, alleged or actual misconduct by employees or others acting on our behalf could result in investigations or prosecutions of persons engaged in the subject activities, which could result in unanticipated consequences or expenses and management distraction for us regardless of whether we are alleged to have any responsibility.

We may in the future experience such misconduct, despite our various compliance programs. Actual or alleged misconduct or improper actions by our employees, agents, subcontractors, suppliers, business partners and/or joint ventures could subject us to administrative, civil or criminal investigations and enforcement actions; monetary and non-monetary penalties; liabilities; or the loss of privileges and other sanctions, including suspension and debarment, which could negatively impact our reputation and ability to conduct or attract new business and could materially and adversely affect us, our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Our business is capital intensive, and we may not be able to raise adequate capital to finance our business strategies, including funding future satellites, or we may be able to do so only on terms that significantly restrict our ability to operate our business.

Implementation of our business strategy, such as expanding our satellite constellation and our product and service offerings, requires a substantial outlay of capital. As we pursue our business strategies and seek to respond to opportunities and trends in our industry, our actual capital expenditures may differ from our expected capital expenditures. The nature of our business also requires us to make capital expenditure decisions in anticipation of customer demand, and we may not be able to correctly predict such demand. If our customer demand exceeds our ability to respond to that demand, we may not be able to fully capture the growth in demand.

We currently expect that our ongoing liquidity requirements for sustaining our operations will be satisfied by cash on hand and cash generated from our existing and future operations supplemented, where necessary or advantageous, by available credit. However, we cannot provide assurances that our businesses will generate sufficient cash flow from operations in the future or that additional capital will be available in amounts sufficient to enable us to execute our business strategies. As discussed below, while we believe our cash on hand resulting from the Merger, along with ongoing revenue generation, will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital expenditure requirements for at least the next twelve months, our ability to satisfy our longer-term liquidity will depend primarily on our ability to grow our revenue and meet our revenue targets, and additional funding may be required for a variety of reasons. The availability and cost to us of external financing depend on a number of factors, including general market conditions, our financial performance and our credit rating. Both our credit rating and our ability to obtain financing generally may be influenced by the supply and demand characteristics of our industry generally. Declines in our expected future revenue under contracts with customers and challenging business conditions faced by our customers are among factors that may adversely affect our credit. Other factors that could impact our credit include the amount of debt in our capital structure, activities associated with our strategic initiatives, our expected future cash flows, and the capital expenditures required to execute our business strategy. The overall impact on our financial condition of any transaction that we pursue may be negative or may be negatively perceived by the financial markets and ratings agencies, and may result in adverse rating agency actions with respect to any credit rating we may have from time to time. Disruption in the capital markets, including as a result of interest rate volatility and geopolitical instability, a deterioration in our financial performance or a credit rating downgrade could limit our ability to obtain financing or could result in any such financing being available only at greater cost or on more restrictive terms than might otherwise be available.

Long-term disruptions in the capital and credit markets as a result of uncertainty due to recessions, changing or increased regulation or failures of significant financial institutions could adversely affect our access to capital. If financial market disruptions occur, it may become difficult for us to raise additional capital or refinance debt when needed, on acceptable terms or at all. Any disruption could require us to take measures to conserve cash until the markets stabilize or until alternative credit arrangements or other funding for our business needs can be arranged. Such measures could include deferring capital expenditures and reducing or eliminating other discretionary uses of cash, which could materially and adversely impact our business and our ability to execute our business strategies.

Our customers may fail to pay us in accordance with the terms of their agreements, necessitating action by us to compel payment.

If customers fail to pay us under the terms of our agreements, we may be adversely affected both from the inability to collect amounts due and the cost and practicality of enforcing the terms of our contracts, including through litigation. The risk of such negative effects increases based on the term length of our customer arrangements and based on the relevant customer’s jurisdiction, for example where a customer is located in a developing country or elsewhere that makes contract enforcement impractical. Furthermore, some of our customers may seek bankruptcy protection or other similar relief, including as a result of the impacts and disruptions caused by rising interest rates, capital markets volatility and geopolitical instability, or other global events, and fail to pay amounts due to us, or pay those amounts more slowly, either of which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

There is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

Our unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements as of September 30, 2023 have been prepared under the assumption that we will continue as a going concern for the next twelve months. As of September 30, 2023, we had cash and cash equivalents of $31.0 million and an accumulated deficit of $269.8 million. We do not believe that our cash and cash equivalents are sufficient to fund operations and capital expenditures to reach larger scale revenue generation from our product offerings. As a result of our financial condition and other factors described herein, there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. Our ability to continue as a going concern will depend on our ability to obtain additional funding, as to which no assurances can be given. We continue to analyze various alternatives, including potentially obtaining debt or equity financings or other arrangements. Our future success depends on our ability to raise capital. We cannot be certain that raising additional capital, whether through selling additional debt or equity securities or obtaining a line of credit or other loan, will be available to us or, if available, will be on terms acceptable to us. If we issue additional securities to raise funds, these securities may have rights, preferences, or privileges senior to those of our DE Class A Common Stock, and our stockholders may experience dilution. If we are unable to obtain funds when needed or on acceptable terms, we may be required to curtail our current development programs, cut operating costs, forgo future development and other opportunities, or even terminate our operations.

Risks Relating to Our Satellites and Industry

Our ability to grow our business depends on the successful production, launch, commissioning and/ or operation of our satellites and related ground systems, software and analytic technologies, which is subject to many uncertainties, some of which are beyond our control.

Our current primary R&D objectives focus on the development of satellites and related components that can remap the entire surface of the Earth in high resolution as well as our EO services, including creating a catalog of archived data. While we currently have 25 satellites in orbit, we estimate the gross costs associated with designing, building, and launching our satellites to build out our constellation will be significant, and there can be no assurance that we will complete these deployments on a timely basis, on budget or at all. Design, manufacture and launch of satellite systems are highly complex and historically have been subject to delays and cost over-runs. If we do not complete development and manufacturing of additional satellites in our anticipated timeframes or at all, our ability to grow our business will be adversely affected. The successful development, integration, and operation of our satellites and our EO services involves many uncertainties, some of which are beyond our control, including, but not limited to:

The occurrence or failure of any of the above events, as applicable, could have a material adverse effect on our ability to continue to develop, integrate and operate our satellites and related infrastructure, products, and services, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

The market for EO services has not been established with precision, is still emerging and may not achieve the growth potential we expect or may grow more slowly than expected.

The market for EO services has not been established with precision as the commercialization of space is a relatively new development and is rapidly evolving. Our views of the total addressable market are based on a number of third-party reports which may or may not accurately reflect future market size and growth. As a result, our views of the total addressable market for our products and services may prove to be incorrect. In addition, if interest in our EO services by commercial customers, or the expected growth in commercial applications for EO services, is less than expected, or our satellite and related technologies are unable to meet expected customer expectations and demand, our business and financial results will be materially and adversely affected.

Our industry is characterized by changing technology and evolving standards, and we may not be successful in identifying, developing and marketing products and services that respond to rapid technological change, evolving technical standards and systems developed by others. Our competitors may develop technology that better meets the needs of our customers. If we do not continue to develop, manufacture, and market innovative technologies or applications that meet customers’ requirements, sales may suffer, and we may not be able to grow our business. If we are unable to achieve sustained growth, we may be unable to execute our business strategy, expand our business or fund other liquidity needs, and our business prospects, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

If our satellites and related equipment become impaired, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

We evaluate our satellites for impairment and test for recoverability whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that their carrying amount may not be recoverable. Certain of the anomalies disclosed below may be considered to represent a significant adverse change in the physical condition of a particular satellite. There can be no assurance as to the actual operational life of a satellite or that the operational life of individual components will be consistent with their design life. A number of factors will impact the useful lives of our satellites, including, among other things, the quality of their design and construction, the durability of their component parts, and the occurrence of any anomaly or series of anomalies or other risks affecting the satellites during launch and in orbit. We currently anticipate the useful life of an operational satellite to be approximately three years. If our satellites and related equipment have shorter useful lives than we currently anticipate, this may lead to delays in increasing the rate of our commercial payloads and declines in actual or planned revenues, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Long-lived assets are tested periodically for impairment or whenever there is an indication that an asset may be impaired. Disruptions to our business, unexpected significant declines in our operating results, adverse technological events or changes in the regulatory environments in which we operate may result in impairment charges to our assets. Any future impairment charges could substantially affect our reported results.

If our satellites fail to operate as intended, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

We rely on data obtained from our satellites in order to provide services to our customers. We may become unable or limited in our ability to collect such data. For example, satellites can temporarily go out of service and be recovered, or cease to function, including the quality of design and construction, the rate of consumption of the propellant supply, the expected gradual environmental degradation of solar panels, the durability of various satellite components and the orbits and space environments in which the satellites are placed and operated. The accumulated effects of solar radiation and single event upsets or electronic/catch-up events from the collision of charged particles, collisions with other objects (including, but not limited to, space debris and other spacecraft) or actions by malicious actors, including cyber-related actions, could also damage the satellites and subject us to liabilities for any damages caused to other spacecraft.

The manufacturing, testing, launching and operation of satellites involves complex processes and technology. Our satellites employ advanced technologies and sensors that are exposed to severe environmental stresses that have affected and could affect the performance of our satellites. Hardware component problems could lead to deterioration in performance or loss of functionality of a satellite. In addition, human operators may execute improper implementation commands that may negatively impact a satellite’s performance. Exposure of our satellites to an unanticipated catastrophic event, such as a meteor shower or a collision with space debris, could reduce the performance of, or completely destroy, the affected satellite. Even if a satellite is operated properly, minor technical flaws in the satellite’s sensors could significantly degrade its performance, which could materially affect our ability to collect imagery and market our products and services successfully.

Satellites can experience malfunctions, commonly referred to as anomalies, which have occurred and may occur in the future in our satellites. Anomalies can occur as a result of various factors, such as satellite manufacturer error, whether due to the use of new or largely unproven technology or due to a design, manufacturing or assembly defect that was not discovered before launch and general failures resulting from operating satellites in the space environment. Any single anomaly could materially and adversely affect our ability to utilize the satellite. Anomalies may also reduce the expected capacity, commercial operation and/or useful life of a satellite, thereby reducing the revenue that could be generated by that satellite or create additional expenses due to the need to provide replacement or back-up satellites or satellite capacity earlier than planned and could have a material adverse effect on our business. In addition, if a satellite or satellites experience a malfunction, the satellite capacity of our unimpacted network may be insufficient to meet all of our customers’ needs or may cause service interruptions, and we may need to potentially blackout or reduce service to certain customers, which would adversely affect our relationships with our customers and result in loss of revenues. Although we work diligently both internally and with our suppliers to determine and eliminate the cause of anomalies in new satellites and provide for redundancies of many critical components in our satellites, we may not be able to prevent the impact of anomalies in the future.

We cannot provide assurances that our satellites will continue to operate successfully in space throughout their expected operational lives. Even if a satellite is operated properly, technical flaws in that satellite’s sensors or other technical deficiencies or anomalies could significantly hinder its performance, which could materially affect our ability to collect imagery and market our products and services successfully. While certain software deficiencies may be corrected remotely, most, if not all, anomalies or debris collision damage cannot be corrected once the satellites are placed in orbit. Further, although we have some ability to actively maneuver our satellites to avoid potential collisions with space debris or other spacecraft, this ability is limited by, among other factors, uncertainties and inaccuracies in the projected orbit location of and predicted conjunctions with debris objects tracked and cataloged by the U.S. government. Additionally, some space debris is too small to be tracked and therefore its orbital location is completely unknown; nevertheless, this debris is still large enough to potentially cause severe damage or a failure of our satellites should a collision occur. Recent years have seen increases in the number of satellites deployed to low Earth orbits, and publicly announced plans call for many thousands of additional satellite deployments over the next decade. The proliferation of these low Earth orbit constellations could materially increase the risk of potential collision with space debris or another spacecraft despite the orbital debris mitigation requirements of the U.S. government and could affect our ability to effectively access sufficient orbital slots to support the expected growth across our business.

If we suffer a partial or total loss of a deployed satellite, it could require a significant amount of time and could incur substantial expense to replace that satellite. We may experience other problems with our satellites that may reduce their performance. If a satellite is not fully operational, we may lose most or all of the revenue that otherwise would have been derived from that satellite and may not be able to provide adequate services to our customers, which may cause us to incur penalties under our contracts or may allow our customers to withhold payment for the time that service was impacted. Our inability to repair or replace a defective satellite or correct any other technical problem in a timely manner could result in a significant loss of revenue. If a satellite experiences a significant anomaly such that it becomes impaired or is no longer functional, it could significantly impact our business, prospects, and profitability.

Many satellites have redundant or backup systems and components that operate in the event of an anomaly, operational failure or degradation of primary critical components, but these redundant or backup systems and components are subject to risk of failure similar to those experienced by the primary systems and components. The occurrence of a failure of any of these redundant or backup systems and components could materially impair the useful life, capacity, or operational capabilities of the satellite.

Satellites are subject to production and launch delays, launch failures, and damage or destruction during launch, the occurrence of which could materially and adversely affect our operations.

Delays in the production of future satellites and the manufacture or procurement of requisite components and launch vehicles, limited availability of appropriate launch windows, possible delays in obtaining regulatory approvals, satellite damage or destruction during launch, launch failures, or incorrect orbital placement could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. The loss of, or damage to, a satellite due to a launch failure could result in significant delays in the anticipated revenue to be generated by that satellite. Any significant delay in the commencement of service of a satellite could delay or potentially permanently reduce the revenue anticipated to be generated by that satellite. In addition, if the loss of a satellite were to occur, we may not be able to accommodate affected customers with our other satellites or data from another source until a replacement satellite is available, and we may not have on hand, or be able to obtain in a timely manner, the necessary funds to cover the cost of any necessary satellite replacement. An extended launch delay beyond planned contingency, launch failure, underperformance, delay or perceived delay could have a material adverse effect on our business prospects, financial condition, and results of operations. If delays were to occur and our remediation measures and process changes were not successful or if we experience issues with planned manufacturing improvements or design and safety, we could experience issues in scaling up further satellite production. Such delays could cause us to fail to reach our goal of expanding and scaling our constellation of satellites. A failure to reach a sufficient number of satellites in our constellation may impact the revisit rates we are able to offer our customers and limit our product offerings, thereby making us less attractive to existing and potential customers.

Launch vehicles may also underperform, in which case the satellite may still be placed into service by using its onboard propulsion systems to reach the desired orbital location, resulting in a reduction in its service life. In addition, although we intend to purchase launch insurance on all of our launches, if we were not able to obtain launch insurance on commercially reasonable terms and a launch failure were to occur, we would directly suffer the loss of the cost of the satellite and related costs.