NASA Scientist to Speak on Near Earth Objects

by | Feb 12, 2016

The public is welcome to join PISCES and others during a presentation on Near Earth Objects (NEOs) on March 9 at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. NASA scientist Brian Day will be presenting the information. Day works at NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research...
Students Complete PISCES 2015 Summer Internship

Students Complete PISCES 2015 Summer Internship

by | Aug 10, 2015

Participants of the PISCES 2015 Summer Internship Program are seen here during a presentation on their research on Aug. 7.  Several university students recently sang the praises of the 2015 Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems summer internship...
UH Hilo Robotics Team Tests School’s First Rover

UH Hilo Robotics Team Tests School’s First Rover

by | Jul 30, 2015

UH-Hilo’s rover “Spock” shown during its very first field test at a PISCES martian simulation site on Hawaii Island. The University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Space Robotics Team has successfully built from scratch the school’s very first planetary mining...
NASA Presenting Talk on Asteroid Threats at UH Hilo

NASA Presenting Talk on Asteroid Threats at UH Hilo

by | Feb 26, 2015

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 Robotics Tech and UHH Team Win Microsoft Challenge

PISCES Robotics Tech and UHH Team Win Microsoft Challenge

by | Jan 6, 2015

Image Credit: Microsoft Imagine Cup PISCES Robotic Tech Casey Pearring and a fellow team of University of Hawaii at Hilo (UHH) computer science students claimed victory in the 2015 Pitch Video Challenge in the Microsoft Imagine Cup – a global student technology...