{"id":81206,"date":"2013-04-12T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T09:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hawaii-prepares-for-first-satellite-launch-from-kauai\/"},"modified":"2013-04-12T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T09:13:24","slug":"hawaii-prepares-for-first-satellite-launch-from-kauai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hawaii-prepares-for-first-satellite-launch-from-kauai\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Prepares for First Satellite Launch from Kauai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Satellite Launch, Nanosatellite<br \/>\nPublication: SFGate.com<br \/>\nPublication Date: 04\/11\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"146\" height=\"225\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/US_Navy_051117-O-XXXXX-002_A_medium-range_separating_target_missile_is_seen_seconds_after_lift-off_from_the_Pacific_Missile_Range_Facility,_Barking_Sands,_Kauai,_Hawaii.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>A medium-range separating target missile is seen seconds after lift-off from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Wikimedia Commons\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The <strong>University of Hawaii <\/strong>is planning the first satellite launch from the islands of Hawaii using the <strong>U.S. Navy\u2019s<\/strong> Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai. The military has used the facility to test missiles but never a satellite. <\/p>\n<p>The satellite, designed by faculty and students, is called HiiakaSat. <strong>Kauai Community College<\/strong> students will operate the satellite and also command and control the ground station. The <strong>Hawaii Space Flight Lab<\/strong>, which runs the program, has plans to make this the start of a venture to launch small satellites from the island, attracting companies looking to test space technology. <\/p>\n<p>HiiakaSat will be placed in low-earth orbit for a mission that will last one or two years.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Satellite Launch, Nanosatellite Publication: SFGate.com Publication Date: 04\/11\/2013 A medium-range separating target missile is seen seconds after lift-off from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons The University of Hawaii is planning the first satellite launch from the islands of Hawaii using the U.S. Navy\u2019s Pacific Missile Range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}