This paper examines two space science infrastructures in Hawai'i, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the Hawai'i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS). It considers how scientific observation and colonial occupation are co-constituted through the production of apparatuses – extensive material practices and arrangements that iteratively produce subject–object relations. By analyzing TMT and HI-SEAS as apparatuses, we show how both involve the active ordering of space, time, and matter in ways that are dependent upon existing settler colonial relations while enacting specific subject positions key to the projection of settler colonialism across space and time. TMT materializes the Archimedean point, or view-from-nowhere, on which Western scientific “objectivity” depends, while HI-SEAS works to produce ideal colonizer-subjectivities and orient their bodies to the spatialities of the colony. Engaging Native Hawai’ian, Indigenous, and allied anti-colonial critiques, we argue that social science of outer space research must critically address the colony, as its basic logics are foundational to the practices of contemporary space science and imaginaries of space exploration.

本文考察了夏威夷的两个空间科学基础设施，即三十米望远镜 (TMT) 和夏威夷空间探索模拟与模拟 (HI-SEAS)。它考虑了科学观察和殖民占领如何通过设备的生产共同构成——广泛的物质实践和安排迭代地产生主客体关系。通过将 TMT 和 HI-SEAS 分析为装置，我们展示了两者如何以依赖于现有定居者殖民关系的方式参与空间、时间和物质的主动排序，同时制定对定居者殖民主义跨越空间和时间。TMT具体化了西方科学“客观性”所依赖的阿基米德观点或无中生有的观点，而 HI-SEAS 则致力于产生理想的殖民者主体性，并使他们的身体适应殖民地的空间。结合夏威夷原住民、原住民和盟军的反殖民批评，我们认为外层空间研究的社会科学必须批判性地解决殖民地问题，因为其基本逻辑是当代空间科学实践和空间探索想象的基础。