By AUDREY McAVOY
Associated Press

HONOLULU (AP) - The University of Hawaii plans to put a satellite into orbit from the Navy's missile testing facility on Kauai in October.

The Manoa campus' Hawaii Space Flight Lab is leading what will be the first launch of a satellite from Hawaii.

The military has fired missiles into space from the Pacific Missile Range Facility but the payloads haven't remained in space long.

Faculty and students designed the satellite. Kauai Community College students will operate the command and control ground station.

The program began with funding from a 2007 defense appropriations bill.

University of Hawaii Innovation Initiative spokeswoman Kelli Trifonovich (tri-FAWN'-oh-vich) says Hawaii's congressional delegation wanted the satellite to launch from Hawaii. The Pacific Missile Range Facility is the only launch site in the state.

LIHUE, KAUAI (HawaiiNewsNow)- A Kauai man accused of pushing a Japanese visitor off a cliff in December was wanted for crimes in another state. Justin Wynn Klein, 37, was arraigned on Tuesday in Circuit Court on Kauai. He entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of second-degree attempted murder.

A witness reported seeing Klein throw a 31-year-old Japanese visitor from a cliff in the Kalalau Valley on December 16. Azusa Ino, also known as Shita, was taken to Wilcox Hospital in critical condition. She later returned to Japan with her family.

After a nearly four-month manhunt, police caught Klein on Saturday at Lydgate Park. Klein told his sister, Jody Pearson, that he was romantically involved with the victim. Pearson said he moved to Kauai from Oregon last May.