Hiapo
Hiapo is a 1U CubeSat built by a group of Hawaiʻi students and staff at the Hawaiʻi Science and Technology Museum, described as the first community-built satellite assembled by students working with the Hawaiʻi Space Grant Consortium (HSGC) and the Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL).
Hiapo launched on Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket on September 2, 2021, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Hawaiʻi Science and Technology Museum's CubeSat flew through Firefly's DREAM Payload Program.
Along the way the team secured frequency coordination from the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) and completed the satellite's radio board design. Hiapo went on to inspire the Ke Ao CubeSat and, with Ke Ao, NASA's Artemis CubeSat Kit developed at HSFL.
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