The 2023-04-20 test flight was a development test not designed to reach orbit and was intended to follow a long suborbital trajectory with Starship splashing down near Hawaii about 90 minutes after liftoff.
Lynk Global is close to completing a Ka-band ground station in Hawaii to connect its growing constellation of small satellites to standard smartphones this spring.
The U.S. Space Force officially activated and assigned U.S. Space Forces – IndoPacific (USSPACEFOR-INDOPAC) to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command on 2022-11-22 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii.
Apple’s $450,000,000 investment includes expansion and enhancement of Globalstar ground stations in Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, Puerto Rico, and Texas.
Cobham Satcom provided antennas to bolster all of Globalstar’s ground stations worldwide, including new sites in Nevada and Hawaii and existing facilities in Texas, Alaska, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
The planned first orbital Starship test flight profile uses the Super Heavy booster and Starship lifting off from the Boca Chica, Texas, test site with Starship reaching orbit and then reentering to splash down near Hawaii after completing less than one orbit.
LOFTID’s inflatable heat shield will slow the vehicle from approximately Mach 25 to Mach 0.7, after which LOFTID will deploy a parachute and splash down east of Hawaii for recovery.
Hawaiian Airlines expects to provide Starlink on larger aircraft for transpacific flights to and from Hawaii in 2023.
Hawaiian Airlines has a deal to offer Starlink services on transpacific flights to and from Hawaii in 2023.
The Aerospace Corp. established remotely operated optical communications ground stations in Maui, Hawaii and at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.
The Federal Communications Commission granted AST SpaceMobile an experimental license to test BlueWalker 3 satellite-to-phone connectivity in the United States at sites in Texas and Hawaii.
AST SpaceMobile secured an experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission on 2022-05-02 to test BlueWalker 3 services in Hawaii and Texas.
On 2022-04-25, Hawaiian Airlines plans to offer free Starlink services on transpacific flights to and from Hawaii next year.
Challenger Communications offers 6.3-meter and 7.5-meter antennas for users situated far from geostationary equatorial orbit, such as Alaska and Hawaii.
The U.S. Geological Survey awarded Woolpert a task order under the Geospatial Product and Service Contract 3 to acquire Quality Level 1 topographic LiDAR data in Hawaii.
Woolpert has acquired approximately 6,600 square miles of topographic LiDAR data and approximately 125 square miles of bathymetric LiDAR data encompassing Hawaii’s eight main islands as part of a systematic plan to produce the state’s first statewide, high-resolution elevation dataset.
Peterson-Schriever Garrison will support Thule Air Base in Greenland, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station in Colorado, Kaena Point Air Force Station in Hawaii, New Boston Air Force Station in New Hampshire, and 16 additional locations worldwide.
Ligado operates one geostationary satellite called SkyTerra-1 that covers all of North America plus Hawaii.
Sen. John Kennedy introduced the Spectrum Management and Reallocation for Taxpayers (SMART) Act with Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to cap the satellite industry’s share of auction proceeds at $6,000,000,000 and direct the remainder toward public uses.
Under the 2014 contract for CCS Block 10.2, L3Harris will deliver systems in 2020 to Air National Guard units in California, Colorado, Florida, and Hawaii, as well as to the 4th Space Control Squadron.