Noah is a Research Assistant at the Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL) and a Master’s student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. They graduated in spring 2024 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with an Aerospace Concentration. They have contributed to the VIA-SEES student satellite project and the Hyperspectral Thermal Imager (HyTI) satellite as a mission
Scott Ginoza graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and joined the Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory in 2021. He has worked with a variety of technology stacks – embedded computing, distributed processing, full-stack web, etc. He is currently involved in developing flight software for CubeSats.
Mars is the assistant to the Hawai‘i Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL) Director, Dr. Luke Flynn, who helps to administer financial, personnel and procurement activities for HSFL. Her original work is through the Hawai‘i Space Grant Consortium (HSGC) but has been involved with HSFL since its inception in 2007, due to the organization’s association as one of the workforce development programs
Gabriel Guerrero joined the Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory in 2022. His previous work experience includes working on airborne electronics at local company North Star Scientific Corporation and working on aerospace assembly/integration at Space Exploration Technologies.
Piper received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2022. She began volunteering with the Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory during her senior year of college and was hired as an engineer after graduation. Since being hired, she has contributed to the Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem and Mission Operations for the 6U CubeSat HyTI.
Eric received his B.A. in Astrophysics from Williams College in 1982. He then received an M.S. in Astronomy from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 1985, after which he went to work for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility as a Systems Programmer. He transferred to the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology in 1997, where he has worked since
Dr. Luke Flynn is the Director of the Hawaii Space Flight Lab (HSFL) and Director of the Hawai‘i Space Grant Consortium (HSGC). Luke is a Tenured Specialist Faculty at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) and he co-founded HSFL in 2007. Luke works on the management and development of small satellites and the Super Strypi rocket, which was first
Lance Yoneshige joined the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory in 2008 after receiving his Bachelors and Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His work with HSFL has spanned spacecraft design, fabrication, integration and testing with the HiakaSat and NEUTRON-1 Missions to launcher operations and support for the ORS-4 Launch. He continues to work with
Born in Brisbane, Australia, Dr. Sorensen received his BS. (1973), M.S. (1976) and Doctor of Engineering (1979) degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas (KU). He did his doctoral project on Pioneer Venus at NASA Ames Research Center. He then was a Space Shuttle guidance and control engineer, worked in Mission Control as assistant Flight Director, and finally
Yosef is an Affiliate Faculty at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) and serves as the Operations Manager at HSFL. He grew up on Maui, and earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) in 2017. During his undergraduate studies, Yosef collaborated with HSFL on his Senior Design Capstone Project, which led