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 Cluster 2 is scheduled to launch on Spaceflight’s SpaceX Rideshare-3 (SXRS-3) mission via the Sherpa-FX orbital transfer vehicle on a Falcon 9 no earlier than December 2020.
HawkEye 360’s satellite constellation can augment and collaborate with existing overhead, airborne, and terrestrial systems to provide a sharable stream of actionable data to the warfighter.
HawkEye 360 plans to expand the Regional Awareness Subscription offering to include new customer-important areas of interest.
HawkEye 360 will work with customers to define Regional Awareness Subscriptions that can span millions of square kilometers.
On 2020-07-28 in Herndon, Virginia, HawkEye 360 began offering a daily Regional Awareness Subscription service.
HawkEye 360 delivers Regional Awareness Subscription data in an open standard GeoJSON format.
HawkEye 360’s RFGeo product identifies and geolocates RF signals collected by HawkEye 360’s proprietary satellite constellation.
HawkEye 360 completed environmental testing of its second cluster of three satellites in July 2020.
HawkEye 360’s first cluster tracked 20 million geolocations and signals of interest within an 18-month period.
HawkEye 360’s constellation identifies and precisely geolocates RF signals from emitters including VHF marine radios, UHF push-to-talk radios, maritime radar systems, AIS beacons, L-band satellite devices, and emergency beacons.
Airbus invested in HawkEye 360’s Series B funding round and that investment created distribution opportunities for HawkEye 360.
Since its 2015 founding, HawkEye 360 has established ground-based infrastructure to downlink and process data, geolocate radio frequency sources, and analyze data for customers.
HawkEye 360 completed environmental testing of three satellites it plans to launch in December on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission.
HawkEye Cluster 2 will join the company’s first cluster of satellites that launched in December 2018, doubling the size of HawkEye 360’s constellation.
HawkEye 360 plans to create a constellation of seven three-satellite clusters with additional launches planned in 2021 and 2022 to offer customers the ability to revisit radio frequency activity anywhere on Earth at 40-minute intervals.
HawkEye 360 built the RF payloads for Cluster 2 and UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory integrated those payloads into the satellite bus.
HawkEye 360 is the first commercial company to use formation-flying satellites to create a new class of radio frequency (RF) data and data analytics.
Each new radar signal added to HawkEye 360’s library improves the company’s ability to develop vessel profiles.
HawkEye 360 can cover the most used frequencies for X-band magnetron-based radar systems.
HawkEye 360 quadrupled the number of X-band radar signals in its RFGeo signal library.