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HawkEye 360 Opens New
Satellite Manufacturing Facility
July 22, 2022
HawkEye 360 Inc.,
announced the grand opening of its Advanced
Technology and Development Center in Herndon,
Virginia. The 19,000 square-foot data processing,
software development, and satellite manufacturing
facility continues HawkEye 360's investment in
Fairfax County to support U.S. government and allied
government needs.
A look into HawkEye 360's
cleanroom at their new satellite manufacturing
facility in Herndon, Virginia.
A look into HawkEye 360's
cleanroom at their new satellite manufacturing
facility in Herndon, Virginia.
The facility enables HawkEye
360 to have end-to-end responsibility to manufacture
its commercial RF-sensing satellites for gathering
geospatial intelligence. Full control of the
development chain from space to ground will
streamline integration, accelerate the introduction
of new capabilities, and provide stronger security
to satisfy the rigorous requirements for serving
defense and intelligence customers.
"Our new Advanced Technology
and Development Center provides our growing team of
brilliant staff a dedicated facility in which they
can thrive, centralizing all our data engineering
and satellite manufacturing in-house," said HawkEye
360 CEO John Serafini. "This gives us more
flexibility to adapt and innovate our commercial RF
GEOINT technology. Our customers will benefit
through our discoveries, as we place more
sophisticated RF-sensing satellites into orbit and
build algorithms that extract value from this
important data. We are proud to be investing in the
local economy with these high-paying, mission
focused jobs that make a global impact."
HawkEye 360's new facility will
house up to 70 employees and host constellation
operations, data processing, software development,
payload development, and satellite assembly. The
company has built a customized clean room and
electronics lab for advanced RF technology and
smallsat manufacturing. This investment boosts
HawkEye 360's commitment to the Commonwealth of
Virginia as it continues to seek and hire advanced
manufacturing, space systems, data engineering, RF
engineering, software engineering, and electronics
engineering employees.
HawkEye 360 is hosting a ribbon
cutting ceremony to celebrate the new facility July
22 at 10:00 AM with expected government attendees
including Representative Jennifer Wexton,
Representative Don Beyer, District Director Marlon
Dubuisson from Representative Gerry Connolly's
office, Virginia Assistant Secretary of
Transportation Duncan McGaan, Virginia State
Delegate Irene Shin, Herndon Mayor Sheila Olem,
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeffrey
McKay, Fairfax County Supervisor John Foust, and
other distinguished guests.
HawkEye 360 anticipates
launching a sixth cluster of three satellites before
the end of the year, which will bring its total
constellation to 18 satellites to support timely
defense, humanitarian, environmental, and commercial
applications.
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