About
Dr. Luke Flynn was the Director of the Hawaii Space Flight Lab (HSFL) and Director of the Hawai‘i Space Grant Consortium (HSGC). Luke is a Tenured Specialist Faculty at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) and he co-founded HSFL in 2007. Luke works on the management and development of small satellites and the Super Strypi rocket, which was first launched in 2015 from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai. He received his B.A in Physics from Cornell University and his PhD in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Hawaii.
Papers
- M. Nunes, R. Wright, P. Lucey, L. Flynn, T. Sorensen, E. Pilger, S. Ginoza, M. Wood, L. Yoneshige, G. Guerrero, Y. Onodera, L. Anderson, C. Swenson, S. Babu (2026). "HyTI-2: A Cryogenically Stabilized LWIR Hyperspectral CubeSat for High-Duty-Cycle Space Domain Awareness," Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference, #26423. https://doi.org/10.64861/GMQY8641
- M. Nunes, R. Wright, P. Lucey, L. Flynn, T. Sorensen, E. Pilger, S. Ginoza, M. Wood, L. Yoneshige, G. Guerrero, Y. Onodera, L. Anderson, C. Swenson, S. Babu (2026). "HyTI-2: Advancing Hyperspectral Thermal Imaging into the Era of Space-Based Edge Processing," 40th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, SSC26-VII-01. https://doi.org/10.26077/2s6z-xn69
- M. Nunes, R. Wright, P. Lucey, L. Flynn, L. Anderson, C. Swenson, S. Babu (2026). "HyTI-2: A Next-Generation Hyperspectral LWIR Payload Enabled by Active Thermal Architecture for Small Satellites," Small Satellites Systems and Services Symposium (4S 2026), Paper 215.
