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All eyes were on a rocket last week as it successfully launched into space with cargo for the International Space Station. On board was a satellite spearheaded by the University of Hawaiʻi. The Conversation talked to Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology Director Robert Wright about the research it hopes to collect from the hyperthermal spectral imager.
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The Conversation spoke to John Bolten, chief of the Hydrological Sciences Lab at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, ahead of Earth Day to learn how NASA shares its satellite data with the world.
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Last summer, scientists sent over 100 Hawaiian bobtail squid up on a rocket ship and into orbit. Why? That was our first question too. The Conversation spoke with lead researcher Jamie Foster about what became of Hawaiʻi’s littlest astronauts.
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Santa Claus won't be the only one flying through the sky on Christmas this year. NASA is launching a space telescope developed by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy on Christmas morning from Kourou, French Guinea.
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NASA has launched a spacecraft on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The spacecraft is called DART, for Double Asteroid Redirection Test. It lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base.
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The University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy has another $15 million for its coffers, thanks to a new NASA grant. What’s the money for? Monitoring asteroids, of course. But just how worried should we be when we look up into the night sky? The Conversation spoke with astronomer Ken Chambers to find out.
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The Conversation’s very own intern Matt Fairfax checked in on how summer internship programs, and the interns themselves, are getting back on their feet amid the pandemic.
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Dozens of baby squid from Hawaii are in space for study. The baby Hawaiian bobtail squid were raised at the University of Hawaii’s Kewalo Marine Laboratory.
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The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years coincides with a supermoon this week for quite a cosmic show and Hawai‘i has the best seat in the house, a NASA scientist said.
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StargazerFor this week’s Stargazer, HPR’s Dave Lawrence and Christopher Phillips talk about a Mauna Kea observation relating to NASA and asteroids.