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HawkEye 360 Plans to Have 60 Satellites on Orbit By 2025

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, October 4th, 2022

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HawkEye 360 Plans to Have 60 Satellites on Orbit By 2025

HawkEye 360 workers hoist a Cluster 3 satellite to integrate to the launch vehicle (HawkEye 360 Photo)

Virginia-based HawkEye 360 plans to have 60 satellites--20 clusters of three satellites--on orbit by 2025, Alex Fox, the company's chief growth officer, said this week. The company said that the 20 clusters will have a global revisit rate of 12 to 20 minutes, as opposed to the 90 minutes now provided by the company's five cluster constellation of 15 satellites. HawkEye 360 plans to launch a cluster each quarter and to launch the next cluster aboard Rocket Lab USA's Electron…

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