“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

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 SYSTEMS

Technology 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