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Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory

Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory

Training a high-tech workforce while building a low-cost gateway to space.

Home > Contact HSFL > About HSFL > - Objectives - Team Members - Organizational Chart - Affiliations - Partnerships Missions > - In development - Opportunities - Rideshare - Launch Support Facilities > - Ground Station - Integration & Test - Mission Ops Center Presentations > - Conference Papers - Conference Slides - Posters News/Press > Team access > Webmail >	About HSFL HSFL was established in May 2007 within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) and the College of Engineering (CoE) at the University of Hawaii. As a multidisciplinary research and education center HSFL brings together individuals from diverse areas to work on the exploration and understanding of the space environment. The mission of HSFL is to: Promote innovative engineering and science research for terrestrial and planetary space missions. Develop, launch, and operate small spacecraft from the Hawaiian Islands to accelerate the validation of new space technologies. Provide workforce training in all aspects of unmanned space missions. Build synergistic collaborations among educational, governmental, and corporate institutions interested in space exploration. Hawaii is located in a unique position to become a low-cost gateway to space and to place the University of Hawaii as the only university in the world to have both satellite fabrication capabilities and unique, direct access to orbital space. This will enable diverse missions that study Earth's oceans and continents from low-Earth orbit, as well as the testing of engineering experiments in the hostile environment of space. University of Hawaii participants will design, build, launch, and operate microsatellites in the 1 - 150 kg range that can be configured for a variety of science and educational tasks. Team Members HSFL is headed by Director Luke Flynn, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (SOEST). Alphabetical listing of team members: Burley, Stewart Chan, Jeremy Doi, William Flynn, Luke French, Lloyd Garbeil, Harold Gouveia, Leonard Gregory, Elizabeth Horton, Keith Kobayashi, Marcelo Lee-Ho, Zachary Menendez, Michael Nunes, Miguel Pilger, Eric Sorensen, Trevor Williams, Tim Wood, Mark Wright, Robert Yamura, Reid Yoneshige, Lance Organizational Chart Chart (Rev. 6.2010) Affiliations University of Hawaii U. H. Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology U. H. School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology U. H. College of Engineering Hawaii Space Grant Consortium Partnerships Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) NASA Ames Research Center, California Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Kauai Santa Clara University, California White Sands Missile Range


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