UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII THE SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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• 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

• promote synergistic collaborations between
  educational, governmental, and corporate
  institutions interested in space exploration

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HSFL Personnel (HIGP)

• Lloyd French
• Missions Manager
• LEONIDAS-2 Project Lead
• Lenny Gouveia
• Technical Partnerships Manager
• Judy Rubano
• Administrative Lead
• Tim Williams
• Launch Support Manager
• Harold Garbeil
• Software Engineer
• Jason Akagi
• Avionics Lead Engineer
• Byron Wolfe
• Systems Lead Engineer
• Eric Pilger
• IT Support Engineer
• Lavina Chatlani
• Program Facilitator (Person who actually does the
  work!!!)

Luke Flynn PhD Hawaii 92 Director
Robert Wright PhD Open U. 99 Data Manager
Keith Horton PhD Hawaii 95 Instrumentation
Paul Lucey PhD Hawaii 86 LEO-2 Science Lead
G. Jeff Taylor PhD Rice U. 70 HSFL Poster-Guy
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Benefits to HIGP/SOEST

• HIGP faculty research opportunities
• NASA, NOAA Terrestrial Remote Sensing
• NSF Space Weather
• NASA Planetary Missions
• HSFL leverages greater collaboration and
  partnership opportunities for HIGP faculty.
• NASA Centers and Mission Directorates
• DoD agencies
• State agencies and corporations (NovaSol)
• Demonstrated experience for HIGP Faculty as
  Mission PI NASA Programs
• Highly competitive research proposals
• End-to-end mission support capability based
  entirely in Hawaii.
• Added attraction for new faculty hires.

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Benefits to State of Hawaii

• State Economic Infrastructure
• 2-6 planned launch activities beginning in 2011
  will require infrastructure support network for
  satellite and rocket components
• At least 60 new technical jobs related to
  aerospace
• 6 new HSFL-related program management teams at
  PMRF consisting of 3 people
• 3 launch crews of 15 technicians each
• ?? More positions for telemetry and range support
• Tens of millions in UH/State revenue
• Windward Community College
• Offers Associate Degree in Aerospace serving as a
  pipeline to HSFL programs.
• Aerospace Lab will serve as outreach and
  educational component of HSFL. Dr. Joseph Ciotti
  will lead effort.
• Upgrades to Windward CC Aerospace Lab will serve
  as virtual Mission Control Center for the HSFL.
• Kauai Community College
• Training program established through Kauai CC
• High paying, high technology jobs for State
  residents

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Science Mission CRESPO

• Coral Reef Observations
• Global , comprehensive, quantitative survey and
  distribution of living coral.
• Hyperspectral remote sensing
• 450 km near polar circular orbit
• 1 year duration minimum
• gt3000 total target scenes

• Impementation
• Ames
• Bench top to Mission (Utilizing pressure vessel
  architecture)
• Novasol
• Small 60-band hyperspectral imager
• Micro HIS VNIRwith sorting filter (800-100nm)

• Partnerships
• University of Hawaii
• HIGP
• HSFL
• SOEST
• NASA Ames Research Center
• Novasol

• Organization
• UH/HSFL Management
• Ames, SOEST Science team
• Ames S/C development
• HIGP, Novasol Instrument
• UH/COE S/C integration and environmental test
• Ames, HSFL Ground stations
• UH/HSFL Science Operations
• Ames S/C Operations

• Costs
• Privately funded mission (Castle Foundation and
  Google)
• Ames is seeking internal funds for S/C labor
  cost.
• Estimated costs 6-7M.
• Study is still ongoing.

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Science Mission CRESPO II
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HSFL Facilities Launch Support

• Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF)
• Local launch facility and mission support
• Using launcher within PMRF boundaries
• HSFL/UH to enter into host-tenant agreement with
  PMRF that will allow HSFL launch facility.

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Launch Vehicle

• Kauai Test Facility (KTF)/ Sandia National Lab
• Experience with solid rockets and missile
  design.
• Heritage working with PMRF as on-site contractor
• SPARK-I Space-borne Payload Assist Rocket
  Kauai. Can send 150 kg to low-Earth orbit (400
  km)
• Future SPARK II 300 kg to low-Earth orbit
• SPARK II capable of planetary missions
• KTF will provide technology transfer to
  University of Hawaii

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Integration and Test

• College of Engineering facility with 5300 square
  feet of space
• Vice Chancellor for Research and SOEST Dean
  allocate funds for clean room equipment.
• Clean rooms in UH/POST will be used to assemble
  satellites.
• Systems integration
• Thermo-vac testing
• Vibration testing
• Electronics testing for launch vehicle component
  integration

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Spacecraft

• Partner with NASA Centers and others to advance
  small spacecraft design.
• Design, build, launch, and operate 30-70-kg
  microsatellite that can be configured for a
  variety of science and educational tasks.
• Support technology validation missions for NASA
  as well as other University or corporate
  missions.
• Draw from cadre of EE and ME students in CoE
  CubeSat Group

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Mission Operations

• UH/HSFL maintains receiving stations that will be
  moved to roof of Holmes in 2009.
• Ground station provides command and control
  broadcast as well as data downlink capabilities.
• Mission Ops Center in POST 527.
• Back-up Mission Ops from PMRF.

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Funding and Support

• Current Support
• Congressional
• FY 08 3.277 Million through Army Space and
  Missile Defense Command
• FY 09 3.884 Million through Air Force
  Operationally Responsive Space
• UH/SOEST
• 1.4 Million HSFL Mission Ops Center, HSFL
  Integration and Test Facility
• Other Support
• Rocket Motors
• MDA 4 GEM-40 first stage motors 8.8 Million
• SNL 2 Star-27 third stage motors 2.2 Million
• Pending AF/ORS 2 SR-73 second stage motors
  3.2 Million
• Future Pending ULA 73 GEM-46 first stage motors
  160 Million
• Motors would be donated to UH/HSFL
• Vandenberg Air Force Base Scout Launcher
• Telemetry Support NWSC Corona

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HSFL Future Prospects

• HIGP faculty research opportunities with new HSFL
  missions.
• Funds from launch operations would be used to
  stimulate new HIGP faculty research and mission
  concepts.
• UH to become the gateway for university-class and
  small satellite space access. Potential to
  relieve log-jam of national small satellite
  projects waiting for space validation of
  hardware.
• UH to provide unique, one-of-a kind student
  training and research opportunities from
  spacecraft design to launch to on-orbit
  operations.
• Reliable, low-cost access to Earth orbit for
  small payloads.
• Total cost is 9.0 million/launch 2.25 million
  each for 4 small satellites.
• Workforce development and training spawning
  hi-technology activities on many islands.

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HSFL Summary

• If Hawaii were a country, we would be the 8th
  nation in the world to have this capability.
  Instead, well be the only university worldwide
  that can do build, launch and maintain satellites
  in space.
• HSFL is seeking new proposals for science and
  technology demonstration missions to support
  HIGP, SOEST, and UH faculty research!