Ke Ao

Ke Ao is a low-cost, 1U CubeSat ready for launch by Fall 2023. The Ke Ao mission is to take one or more pictures from space and automatically identify the Hawaiian Islands using Artificial Intelligence. A secondary goal of this project is to promote aerospace education in Hawaii.

Ke Ao (keh-ow) is a 1U CubeSat mission with the goal to create a functional, inexpensive satellite for taking a picture of the Hawaiian Islands from space. Ke Ao translates to “The Cloud” in Hawaiian or it can also be an abbreviation for “Atmosphere Observation”. The project also includes the development of a machine learning algorithm to automatically identify the Hawaiian island chain from the pictures taken.