ORS Office Teams with University of Hawaii on Small Sat Launcher

摘要

The University of Hawaii and the Pentagon's Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office are on track to debut a new small-satellite launcher this October in what would be the first space launch from the Aloha State. The 55-kilogram Hyperspec-tral Imaging Aeronautical Kinematic Analysis, or HIAKA, satellite will launch atop a three-stage, solid-fueled rocket assembled by the university's Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratory of Albuquerque, N.M, and Sacramento, Calif.-based Aerojet Corp., which supplied the motors.