PISCES Programs Featured in Hawaii Business Magazine

by PISCES | Feb 28, 2020

Above: Students of the Women’s STARS Program pose outside the HI-SEAS habitat on Mauna Loa in June 2019. PISCES’ work in aerospace development was recognized in Hawaii Business magazine last month. PISCES: A Local Launch Pad to Space and Aerospace Careers highlighted...

Science, Sci-Fi and Robots: 2019 AstroDay Highlights

by PISCES | Jun 3, 2019

Above: Keiki play with VexIQ robots at the PISCES table, one of 85 booths at the 18th annual AstroDay event in Hilo. (L-R): PISCES’ staff members Rodrigo Romo, Kyla Edison and Kye Harford shared PISCES’ research in basalt sintering during AstroDay. The 18th annual...

Environmental Assessment Begins for Proposed Spaceport in East Hawaii

by PISCES | Feb 4, 2019

Above: The proposed facility would be similar to Rocket Lab’s small vehicle launch site located on the Mahia Peninsula of northern New Zealand. Alaska Aerospace Corp. is proposing the construction of a launch facility in East Hawaii to send small satellites into...

PISCES Presents ‘Pathways to Mars’ at HawaiiCon

by PISCES | Oct 3, 2018

Above: PISCES’ Kyla Defore leads a Q&A on Mars colonization at HawaiiCon. PISCES Geology Technician Kyla Edison attended the fifth-annual HawaiiCon Science Fiction Convention in September to talk about the future of human exploration on Mars and her research that...

Intern Presents Work in Basalt Sintering at Akamai Symposium

by PISCES | Aug 17, 2018

PISCES’ Akamai Intern Kylie Higaki is originally from Pearl City, Oahu and currently studies Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. PISCES wrapped up an intensive summer internship last month with Akamai intern Kylie Higaki, an Oregon State...