HawkEye 360 is a commercial signals intelligence company that operates a constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit to detect, characterize, and geolocate radio frequency (RF) signals. \[3, 11] The company's services include spectrum mapping and monitoring, maritime domain awareness, and other data analytics for government and commercial clients in the maritime, telecommunications, and security sectors. \[1, 3, 8] HawkEye 360 partners with organizations like General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, and BlackRock to enhance its data capabilities and expand its market reach. \[5, 9, 12] The company's RF data and analytics are used for various applications, including monitoring wireless usage, detecting interference, and expediting search and rescue operations. \[3, 7, 11]
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HawkEye 360 opened a new manufacturing facility near its northern Virginia headquarters in Herndon.
HawkEye 360 has historically built its radio-frequency monitoring payloads while using satellite buses from the Space Flight Laboratory at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies.
HawkEye 360 opened the Advanced Technology and Development Center in Herndon, Virginia.
HawkEye 360 is seeking and hiring advanced manufacturing, space systems, data engineering, RF engineering, software engineering, and electronics engineering employees in Virginia.
The Herndon facility enables HawkEye 360 to have end-to-end responsibility to manufacture its commercial RF-sensing satellites for gathering geospatial intelligence.
HawkEye 360’s Herndon facility is an investment in Fairfax County to support U.S. government and allied government needs.
HawkEye 360 built a customized clean room and electronics lab at the Herndon facility for advanced RF technology and smallsat manufacturing.
HawkEye 360 anticipated launching a sixth cluster of three satellites before the end of 2022, which would bring its total constellation to 18 satellites.
The Herndon facility provides HawkEye 360 end-to-end responsibility to manufacture its commercial RF-sensing satellites for geospatial intelligence.
HawkEye 360 Inc. opened a 19,000-square-foot Advanced Technology and Development Center in Herndon, Virginia.
HawkEye 360 built a customized clean room and electronics lab at the Herndon facility for advanced RF technology and smallsat manufacturing.
Companies that provide space-based radio frequency data include HawkEye 360, Kleos, and Spire.
The six smallsats launched on SpaceX Transporter-5 comprised three GHGSat greenhouse gas monitoring satellites and three HawkEye 360 radio frequency geolocation smallsats.
Space Flight Laboratory was selected for HawkEye 360 missions because formation flying by multiple satellites is important for successful RF geolocation.
Space Flight Laboratory has developed 15 smallsats for HawkEye 360 of Herndon, Virginia.
Once Cluster 5’s on-orbit checkout is complete, HawkEye 360’s recent launches in 2022 will have doubled the constellation’s capacity and revisit rates, expanding the constellation to 15 satellites.
HawkEye 360’s expanded constellation to 15 satellites increases the company’s ability to serve global customer demand and to monitor activity in locations such as Ukraine.
Each enhanced HawkEye 360 satellite cluster increases the density of RF data delivered to government, commercial, and humanitarian customers and partners.
The recent launches in 2022 will expand HawkEye 360’s constellation to 15 satellites.
The expanded HawkEye 360 constellation boosts the company’s ability to serve global customer demand and to monitor activity in locations such as Ukraine.