Apply for an Exciting Summer Internship with PISCES!

Apply for an Exciting Summer Internship with PISCES!

Attention college students:  Spend your summer working on the future of space exploration! The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems, a state-funded aerospace agency based in Hilo, HI, is looking for summer interns to work on some...
ISS Astronaut Captures Incredible View of Hawaii Island

ISS Astronaut Captures Incredible View of Hawaii Island

Image Credit: Samantha Cristoforetti/ESA/NASA. European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured this amazing view of Hawaii Island some 200 miles overhead from the International Space Station (ISS) late last month.  Cristoforetti shared her photo on...
NASA Presenting Talk on Asteroid Threats at UH Hilo

NASA Presenting Talk on Asteroid Threats at UH Hilo

On any given day, there are an estimated 25 million objects in the skies and nearly 100 tons of meteorites that make contact with Earth’s surface.  While most of them are the size of a grain of sand, objects larger than 1.5 km in diameter could result in catastrophic...
PISCES Submits Three Bills to Hawaii State Legislature

PISCES Submits Three Bills to Hawaii State Legislature

Early this month (February), PISCES submitted three legislative bills intended to further the Center’s project goals and development. The first bill, SB 672, appropriates general funding for the Center to continue its planetary surface systems work enabling Hawaii to...