The New Mexico Sounding Rocket Project is a hands-on engineering and research based pilot project with the aim of developing skills and exposing participants to opportunities in the STEM disciplines. As such, the current group of six first and second year students are building a payload (named CATSat-1, or the CubeSat Applied Technology project)for a sounding rocket launch in Spring
The Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory will launch their first microsatellite, HiakaSat, from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kaua`i. HiakaSat, part of the HawaiiSat-1 Mission and ORS-4 Mission, is scheduled to launch in the last few months of 2015. Garden Isle News article here.
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HSFL has been awarded a new grant for ~$765,000 from the FY 2012 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) toward the purchase and installation of a state-of-the-art Attitude Control System Test Bed. This test bed simulates the space environment using different simulators with a high degree of precision for sensor inputs: load free (equivalent to zero gravity testing), sun luminescence,
Miguel Nunes (ME/HSFL) was awarded First Place Gold in the PhD Level of the International Student Paper Competition in conjunction with the 13th International Space Conference of Pacific-basin Societies (ISCOPS) held May 15-18, 2012 in Kyoto, Japan. Nunes earned 58/60 points and a unanimous win from the four judges (two from Japan, one from China, and one from U.S.) with his
Erik Keoni Wessel, a Hale Kula home school student working on the HSFL COSMOS project, earned prizes at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held in Pittsburgh, PA, May 14-18, 2012. Wessel won awards totaling $3500 from NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory for his project, “Simulating Orbital Dynamics and Planetary Collisions in a Video Game.” The
Dr. Trevor C. Sorensen, HSFL project manager/specialist, was recently elected a Fellow by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Sorensen is also a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society, and in 1994 was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his work as Lunar Mission Manager for the DoD/NASA Clementine lunar mission. Read more in the September 1,
HSFL reached a significant milestone with the successful completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) for HawaiiSat-1. The CDR was conducted at the HSFL facilities February 22-23, 2011. This key accomplishment clears the way for the Hawaii-Sat 1 team to begin assembly, integration, and testing of the satellite during the rest of 2011. Pictured are team engineers (front row, left
Dr. Brian Taylor, Dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at U. H. Mānoa, spoke about HSFL at E Kamakani Noi‘i “Wind that seeks knowledge,” a symposium on innovation organized by U. H. and the U. S. National Academy of Sciences in Honolulu January 13-14, 2011. Video and slides from Dean Taylor’s presentation, “Innovative Satellite