The Space Report
Hawaiʻi Space Flight Lab Secures $8M in NASA Funding for Advanced Space Tech
Hyperspectral Thermal Imager (HyTI) instrument. Credit: HSFL/UH News The Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL) at UH Mānoa has secured $8 million from NASA to demonstration space technology that...
NASA Seeking Student Proposals for 2023 TechRise Challenge
U.S. students in grades 6–12 are invited to team up with their classmates to develop a science or technology experiment idea for NASA's TechRise Student Challenge. The challenge calls for an...
UH Astronomer to Help Develop Design Software for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope
Artist rendering of the Nancy Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA A University of Hawaiʻi astronomer is part of a team of experts recently awarded $11 million to face the daunting challenge of...
NASA Just Brought Its First Asteroid Sample Back to Earth
The sample return capsule for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission touched down in the Utah desert on Sept. 24. with a sample from asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber After seven years and billions of...
Send a ‘Message in a Bottle’ Across the Solar System to Europa
Credit: NASA NASA is offering a chance to send your name to a distant moon as part of a mission to determine whether life could exist elsewhere in the solar system! The Europa Clipper mission will...
Sign Up Now to Compete in NASA’s 2023 Space Apps Challenge
UH Institute for Astronomy is seeking participants for NASA’s 2023 International Space Apps Challenge in Hawaiʻi during Oct. 7–8. This annual global hackathon aims to inspire collaboration,...
India’s Chandrayaan-3 Mission Nails Historic Lunar Landing at Moon’s South Pole
Above: Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander on the Moon, captured by the Pragyan rover. Credit: ISRO India nailed its first lunar landing on the second try. Chandrayaan-3 touched down at the lunar south...
Tele-robotics Event Promotes Global Collaboration on International Moon Day
In celebration of International Moon Day, we were excited to support the second-annual Moon Village Association (MVA) international tele-robotics event last month. On July 20th, teams from schools...
Historic Chandrayaan-3 Mission Aims for Lunar Landing at Moon’s South Pole
Above: Chandrayaan-3 launches from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India on July 14, 2023. Credit: ISRO India is poised to become only the fourth country in the world to successfully land...
UH IfA Team Awarded $4M to Develop Sensors for Imaging Earth-like Exoplanets
A team of researchers led by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy has been awarded $4 million by NASA to develop a new generation of ultra-sensitive sensors that can directly image...
Registration Opens for 6th Annual EMER-GEN Space Program on Maui
Students talk with Almudena Azcarate Ortego of the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research during the 2022 EMER-GEN program. Credit: MEDB/EMER-GEN Students and young professionals who are excited...
UH Maui College Rocket Team Levels Up at National Competition
UHMCanSat team (L–R): Justin Lucas Bio, Christian Yadao, Christian Falcon, Angelica Juarez, Joe Vincent Yuro and Jung Park. Credit: UH News A team of five University of Hawaiʻi Maui College students...