01-09-2024, 01:50 AM
This seems like as good a place as any, to post the article below, and continue the conversation about Mauna Kea and the future of astronomy there. It’s almost as if there are two sides to the issue, and neither one has any idea the other exists. One seems delighted to return the mountain to the Stone Age, except for the roads on which they can drive up and shovel snow into the back of their pickup trucks during winter storms. The other wants to spend $40 million to train students to, to, what exactly? Do they have an ace up their sleeve? We can only hope.
On Sunday, the University of Hawaiʻi announced that it is in the initial stages of creating a space engineering and instrument development center on the the UH-Hilo campus, at facilities at the UH Institute for Astronomy.
UH received $2 million in state funds to start the initial design of the facility, which officials estimate will cost about $30 to $40 million to build. University students “will receive valuable hands-on training at the center producing instruments for space-based missions and ground-based telescopes,” officials say.
https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2024/...lo-campus/
On Sunday, the University of Hawaiʻi announced that it is in the initial stages of creating a space engineering and instrument development center on the the UH-Hilo campus, at facilities at the UH Institute for Astronomy.
UH received $2 million in state funds to start the initial design of the facility, which officials estimate will cost about $30 to $40 million to build. University students “will receive valuable hands-on training at the center producing instruments for space-based missions and ground-based telescopes,” officials say.
https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2024/...lo-campus/