PHOTOS: Rocket Motor Blast

PHOTOS: Rocket Motor Blast

Photo Credit: Ena Media Hawaii Please enjoy these photographs from our rocket firing test on March 20th. The test was held to investigate the efficacy of the recently constructed lunar landing pad. The pad was made out of basalt pavers that were later put together...
PHOTOS: Rocket Motor Blast

PISCES Rocket Engine Firing Test: MISSION COMPLETE

Photo credit: Ena Media Hawaii After months of preparation, the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) finally tested the durability of their robotically-built lunar landing pad. The test took place on the Big Island of Hawaii at 1 p.m. on...

NASA Commends PISCES for Lunar Landing Pad Efforts

Jack J. Fox, the Chief of Science and Technology Projects Division for NASA Kennedy Space Center, recently sent a letter to the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems.  It reads as follows: During our 2015 field testing of the robotic Vertical...
PISCES Video on Lunar Landing Pad Bullseye Construction

PISCES Video on Lunar Landing Pad Bullseye Construction

The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration (PISCES) recently published this video of the lunar landing pad, or Vertical Take-off/Vertical Landing Pad. The video, made by PISCES Project Manager Rodrigo Romo, captures the months-long process of our rover...
PISCES Video on Lunar Landing Pad Bullseye Construction

PISCES Scientists Make Headway at Lunar Landing Pad Site

The Helelani rover atop of recently placed basalt pavers.  The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems’ (PISCES) Vertical Take-Off, Vertical Landing Pad test site is making progress. PISCES Program Manager Rodrigo Romo said Wednesday that a...