The University of Hawai'i Manoa Satellite Project needs your help.

On Thursday morning, a UH Manoa Mechanical Engineering team and the Hawai'i Space Flight Laboratory launched a balloon satellite project from Sandy Beach Park.

The plan was for it to soar to 100,000 feet and take hundreds of aerial images before landing on or near Moloka'i. But the best laid plans can go awry.

The balloon burst at less than 60,000 feet and the payload module landed five miles east of Makapu'u Point.

Calculations indicate that the module was most likely to come ashore between Koko Head and Kane'ohe Marine Corps Base. Searches so far have been in vain.

The module was labeled inside and out with address and contact information.

It is approximately 1-foot cubed, highly buoyant, and covered in gold-colored foil with red straps. It may still be attached to a small transmitter, a colored parachute, and a broken red balloon.

The University of Hawai'i-Manoa team asks that anyone who has seen or recovered the module call 956-2372.