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The first launch under the Exolaunch–HawkEye 360 agreement occurred on Sunday, 2024-04-07 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
The Exolaunch contract with HawkEye 360 covers integration and deployment services for at least ten satellites to be delivered into orbit for HawkEye 360.
The satellites to be launched under the Exolaunch–HawkEye 360 agreement are intended to strengthen HawkEye 360’s geospatial intelligence services.
HawkEye 360 is headquartered in Virginia and provides maritime safety technology and insights by delivering radio frequency (RF) data and analytics.
All subsequent HawkEye 360 satellite clusters have been developed on Space Flight Laboratory’s larger 30-kg DEFIANT bus.
Six radio frequency geolocation microsatellites developed by Space Flight Laboratory for HawkEye 360 have successfully communicated with ground control.
HawkEye 360 Cluster 8 and Cluster 9 satellites launched on 2024-04-07 at 7:16 pm EDT from Florida on the SpaceX Bandwagon-1 Rideshare.
The two new three-satellite clusters bring to 27 the total number of geolocation microsatellites developed by Space Flight Laboratory for HawkEye 360.
HawkEye 360 selected Space Flight Laboratory to develop its satellites because attitude control and formation flying by multiple spacecraft are important for accurate RF signal geolocation.
Space Flight Laboratory built the HawkEye 360 Pathfinder satellites on its 15-kg NEMO platform.
Clusters 8 and 9 each consist of three satellites and together bring to 27 the total number of geolocation microsatellites developed by Space Flight Laboratory for HawkEye 360.
SFL and Exolaunch partnered with HawkEye 360 on the deployment of Clusters 8 and 9.
All subsequent HawkEye 360 clusters after the Pathfinder satellites have been developed on Space Flight Laboratory’s 30 kg DEFIANT bus.
Space Flight Laboratory confirmed that six radio frequency geolocation smallsats developed for HawkEye 360 have successfully communicated with ground control.
HawkEye 360 Cluster 9 includes updated payload and platform features representing the next evolution of its satellites.
HawkEye 360 Cluster 8 and Cluster 9 were launched from Florida aboard the SpaceX Bandwagon-1 Rideshare mission.
HawkEye 360 selected Space Flight Laboratory to develop its satellites based on the importance of attitude control and formation flying by multiple spacecraft for accurate RF signal geolocation.
Bandwagon-1 passenger satellites include Capella Space’s Acadia-4, HawkEye 360’s clusters 8 and 9 totaling six satellites, and iQPS’s QPS-SAR-7 (Tsukuyomi-2).
HawkEye 360 flew six radio-frequency geolocation satellites, called Cluster 8 and Cluster 9, on Bandwagon-1.
Placing HawkEye 360’s Cluster 8 and Cluster 9 satellites in mid-inclination orbits will support HawkEye 360’s work to help monitor and prevent illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing across the Indo-Pacific region.