With the “Hawk Tuah Girl” taking social media by storm in recent weeks, something similarly named held that title first. Sort of.
HawkEye 360 is a Virginia-based company involved with monitoring radio frequencies – “precise mapping of radio frequency emissions” as they call it – to collect worldwide RF data. Simply put… if something gives off a radio frequency, the company will know where it’s located, what frequency it’s using and how strong that signal is.
It may seem a bit “Big Brother”-ish, but HawkEye 360 maintains that the data they collect is highly useful for “consumer, civil government, and national and global security uses” on land and sea. The company collects it’s data with a cluster of satellites currently in orbit, known as the Hawk constellation. The first cluster was launched in January of 2021 and among the now 24 Hawk satellites, the first numerically on that list – Hawk-2A. In fact, you can click on it’s name to see where it is in orbit right now.
The Hawk-2A may never go viral like that girl from Tennessee but you can’t take away that the spacecraft had the name first. Sort of.
And that “thang” ain’t nothin’ to “spit on”. Ya get me?
