The National Reconnaissance Office on Wednesday declared agreements worth billions of dollars throughout the following 10 years to a threesome of satellite-symbolism organizations: Maxar, Planet and BlackSky.

Maxar, in a protections documenting, said its 10-year EOCL contract is worth up to $3.24 billion, with a five-year base agreement of $1.5 billion and discretionary agreements worth up to $1.74 billion.

BlackSky’s agreement is esteemed at up to $1.02 billion north of 10 years, the organization revealed in a recording. Planet’s agreement esteem was not quickly accessible.

NRO promoted the agreements as “a noteworthy development” of its obtaining methodology, noticing the rising accessibility of business organizations’ symbolism “expands our strength and empowers a coordinated methodology” to public safety.

The NRO is the U.S. organization that deals with a wide expansiveness of satellite-knowledge capacities, including working its own grouped satellites.

BlackSky shares rose above close to 100% in exchanging while Planet’s rose 14% and Maxar’s climbed 20%, from the stocks’ past closes of $1.18 an offer, $5.02 an offer and $24.48 an offer, separately.

The NRO grant goes under its Electro-Optical Commercial Layer, or EOCL, program, which the insight office says will uphold more than 500,000 government clients over the course of the following ten years.

The EOCL bargain has been hotly anticipated, with Maxar beforehand filling in as the NRO’s only supplier of economically procured satellite symbolism.

While Maxar might be losing a rewarding imposing business model, Wall Street examiners don’t anticipate that the new contest should hurt the organization, given the development altogether addressable market for satellite symbolism.