Above: Windward CC team lead Nikki Arakawa configures the Project Imua 10 payload. Credit: UH News Two University of Hawaiʻi Community College students and their advisor wrapped up the final tests last month to ready their science payload for launch aboard a NASA...
Above (L–R): Matthew Paulino, Kelli Ching, Nikki Arakawa, Katlynn Vicuña and Kahiamaikalani Walker. Credit: UH News The winners of NASA’s First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition in April were announced last month and a team...
Above: Example of a neutron monitoring station. Credit: UH News The outlook for space weather forecasts is looking bright. Researchers at UH Mānoa have been awarded a $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant to build a space weather monitoring...
Image: NASA Speeding across the skies some 250 miles overhead, the International Space Station is a tangible symbol of international cooperation and has largely remained above the realm of geopolitics—both literally and metaphorically—since it was built. But Russia’s...
Earthlings are better-equipped to detect asteroid threats thanks to the expansion of a NASA-funded program run by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA). ATLAS, or Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, has...
Clavius Crater on the Moon. Credit: NASA/USGS NASA has awarded $3 million to a team of five University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists in support of a system that will search for widespread ice deposits beneath the lunar surface. The mission, called...
