Today 2026 August24 (Mon) 06:55 Etc/GMT-9

2026/09/15~2026/09/16

(NET) Electron • HawkEye

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket topped with a Curie upper stage will launch a batch of two small radio frequency monitoring satellites into orbit for RF geospatial analytics provider Hawkeye 360. The mission is named "?". - Hawk 16A/B are 30kg? satellites based on the Defiant bus by HawkEye 360 and are part of a space-based civil global intelligence network that will use radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, which is essentially a civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission. The constellation of small satellites, called HawkEye, in low Earth orbit (LEO) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics.

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