NoVa satellite company HawkEye 360 just made its latest move among the stars.
The Herdon, Virginia company, which measures space-based radio frequency data and analytics, announced the launch of its Cluster 5 satellites yesterday. The cluster took off from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stationed in Cape Canaveral in Florida. The new launch expands HawkEye’s satellite constellation to 15 satellites in total — the company has a long-term goal of 60 satellites in orbit.
According to HawkEye, the launch will also help the constellation to monitor hard-to-reach places like Ukraine. Senior product marketing director Adam Bennett told Technical.ly that its technology, which can look at things like GPS interference, is part of a huge push to gather as much information from the region as possible.
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