Pan-STARRS, the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System, is an innovative design for a wide-field imaging facility being developed at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy. By combining relatively small mirrors with very large digital cameras we will be able to develop and deploy an economical observing system that will be able to observe the entire available sky several times each month. A 1.8m telescope with a 7 square degree camera has been built and the survey is expected to start in early 2008.
While the immediate goal of Pan-STARRS is to discover and characterize Earth-approaching objects, both asteroids & comets, that might pose a danger to our planet, several other key projects, from nearby stars to cosmology, using the data have been defined. I will present the current status of the project and it's different scientific goals.