Probe to Relay First Up-close Data and Imagery of Pluto

Probe to Relay First Up-close Data and Imagery of Pluto

by | Jan 16, 2015

Image: Artist’s rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Scientists are anticipating the rendezvous of NASA’s New Horizons satellite with Pluto to return the first up-close imagery and scientific data ever relayed from the distant dwarf...
PISCES Robotics Tech and UHH Team Win Microsoft Challenge

PISCES Robotics Tech and UHH Team Win Microsoft Challenge

by | Jan 6, 2015

Image Credit: Microsoft Imagine Cup PISCES Robotic Tech Casey Pearring and a fellow team of University of Hawaii at Hilo (UHH) computer science students claimed victory in the 2015 Pitch Video Challenge in the Microsoft Imagine Cup – a global student technology...
Former PISCES Worker Makes Forbes “30 Under 30” List

Former PISCES Worker Makes Forbes “30 Under 30” List

by | Jan 6, 2015

Sophie Milam shown on the Slopes of Mauna Loa volcano near the Hi-SEAS Habitat.  Credit: Forbes Former PISCES worker Sophie Milam made the 2015 Forbes “30 Under 30” in the science category for her cutting edge research in robotics and role in the Mars simulation...
NASA Prepares Next Mars Rover to Seek Out Life

NASA Prepares Next Mars Rover to Seek Out Life

by | Jan 6, 2015

Image Credit: NASA NASA is preparing its next Mars mission for launch in 2020 with a new rover designed to seek out the existence of life on the Red Planet.  The yet-to-be named rover, currently dubbed ‘Mars 2020’, will carry a payload of seven state-of-the-art...
Astrobotic Emerges as Front Runner in GLXP Competition

Astrobotic Emerges as Front Runner in GLXP Competition

by | Dec 20, 2014

Above: GLXP Team Astrobotic’s lunar rover dubbed “Andy” shown in a mock lunar landscape.  Credit: Astrobotic. Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) – the $30 million international competition challenging private space teams to launch, fly, and land a...