The Space Report
Long-Duration Flight: The Development of HALE-UAS
Above: Swift Engineering's SULE UAS takes flight: Credit: Swift Engineering. By: Matthew Fladeland, Airborne Science Manager at NASA Ames The advent of lightweight, high-power batteries, efficient...
Economic Recovery in Hawaii: The Case for Aerospace
Above: HAPSMobile’s unmanned aerial system platform could launch from Hawaii to provide wireless connectivity on the ground. Image courtesy of HAPSMobile. During the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic...
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Approaches Red Planet Landing
Above: Perseverance touches down on Mars aided by a jet-powered sky crane in this artist rendering. Credit: NASA-JPL. After more than six months in flight, NASA’s Perseverance rover will touch down...
New Sintering Method May Reduce Cost of ISRU Production for Earth, Moon and Mars
Above: A durable new basalt produce uses a binding agent to reduce energy consumption during production. After nearly a year of research, PISCES scientists have developed a new ISRU (in-situ...
HALO Program Offers Remote Testing at Lunar/Mars Analog Sites in Hawaii
Above: Helelani analog rover at NELHA’s HOST Park analog site in Kailua-Kona (aerial shown below). PISCES is launching a new program offering remote or on-site access to lunar analog environments....
Helelani Rover’s Comm Systems Upgraded for Mobile Ops
The Helelani analog rover inside its new home, “Moku” or Mobile Operations Kommand Unit. The PISCES planetary analog rover Helelani got an upgrade to its communication systems last month with the...
Chang’e-5 Mission to Retrieve Lunar Samples
Chang’e 5 blasts off on a Long March 5 heavy lift rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Center on Nov. 23. Credit: CNSA/CAS China is on track to return to Earth the first lunar surface samples in more...
First NASA-Certified Commercial Spaceflight Carries Astronauts to ISS
Above: The crew of Resilience inside the Crew Dragon cockpit. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX broke new ground in space flight again on Nov. 15, 2020, after successfully launching a crew of four astronauts to...
Water Discovered on Sunlit Surface of Moon for First Time
An artist rendering shows the location of a lunar crater where water molecules were recently discovered using a NASA telescope. Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter For the first time ever, scientists have...
NASA’s Historic Asteroid Mission to Return Samples to Earth
Artist rendering of OSIRIS-REx readying itself for landing on Bennu. Credit: NASA Goddard/University of Arizona. NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission is on track to retrieve a handful of...
WiSE Talks Highlight Women in Space Exploration
When eight of the world’s best and brightest women working in space exploration come together, magic happens. The first Women in Space Exploration (WiSE) Talks series hosted by PISCES featured a...
UH Mānoa Renews Focus on Aerospace Engineering
(L-R) UH Mānoa engineering students Adam James Macalalag, Eric Takahashi, Efren Enriquez and Matthew Nakamura hold a rocket they built and launched as part of the Spaceport America Cup competition...