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“State of Aerospace” in
Hawaii
Briefing to Aerospace States Association
Robert M. Kelso Executive Director, PISCES
April 2015
World-class Astronomy in Hawai’i
Laser Optical Communications – NASA / Hawai’i
BEFORE CONSTRUCTION
Paving the Road to Space Settlement - PISCES Sustainable Concrete / Basalt Manufacturing
Hawai’i – Commercial SpacePort License
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• Ties State’s #1 economic driver (tourism) with Space• SPACE-TOURISM
• Economic impact on local economy, high-tech jobs.• Sub-orbital micro-G experiments
KONA
High Quality Lunar/Mars Analogues Test Sites
PISCES
MoonRIDERSGOAL: To develop, launch, fly and land on the moon a Hawaii High School student-built lunar surface experiment, in concert with technology from the NASA Kennedy Space Center as a hosted payload on one of the upcoming Google Lunar X-Prize (GLXP) launch
WHEN: GLXP launch in late 2016/early 2017
HI-SEAS Habitat
Small Satellite Launch from East-coast Hawai’i
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• Establishes Hawai’i as a space-launch state
• Economic impact on local economy, high-tech jobs.
• 19.5 deg latitude – improved ascent performance
• USN South Point Satellite Station for launch TT&C
Small Satellite Launch Capability for Hawai’i
606 pounds (275 kilograms) into a 248-mile-high (400-kilometer) orbit from the Hawaii launch base
BACKUP
ICON Mission• Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) is a NASA Earth Science
mission scheduled to launch in the summer of 2017. http://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/
• Hawaii perspective for PEGASUS - Low risk, low impact mission that may set the stage for future missions.
CONOPsL1011 stages at Hilo Airport
MCC located on Hawaii’s east coast
AAC Range Safety stages at South Point, Hawai’i to
support mission with TM and Command
PISCES SPACE ROBOTICS – SURFACE SYSTEMSTechnology Enhancement Program
• New avionics/ computer • Payload computer / interface
• Solar/Fuel Cell Power distrib system• New communications system
• Navigation – Instrumentation & S/W• Imaging / camera systems
• New lighting systems• Flight delay emulator
• New display and control (D&C)• Flight Recorder
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY - Integrate NASA 1KW
fuel cell into rover
COMM RELAY - Added NASA flight communications remote interface connectivity into PISCES test site
Dust…Dust everywhere
Dust on Apollo 12 camera