AAC Clyde Space initially focused operations on providing free access to all SeaHawk-1 data collected and processed from mid-April 2021 to the International Ocean Color Community.
AAC Clyde Space received a 135 kUSD order to continue operating the SeaHawk-1 satellite from its Operations Center in Glasgow, Scotland for a further 12 months.
SeaHawk-1 operates at an altitude of about 600 km and travels at approximately 7.5 km/s.
SeaHawk-1 is operated from AAC Clyde Space’s Glasgow Operations Center with instrument data downloaded to NASA Wallops facility via the satellite’s X-band downlink.
SeaHawk-1 is a follow-on mission to the SeaWiFS (Sea-Viewing Wide field-of-View Sensor) mission that was launched in 1997.
SeaHawk-1 observes the changing biology of the ocean surface using a compact, multi-spectral camera called HawkEye developed by Cloudland Instruments.