{"id":128280,"date":"2020-10-06T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=128280"},"modified":"2020-10-06T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T20:08:22","slug":"satellite-blasts-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/06\/satellite-blasts-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> satellite successfully blasts into space"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
\"rocket
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket loaded with the company\u2019s Cygnus resupply spacecraft. (Photo credit: NASA<\/abbr> Wallops\/Patrick Black)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Neutron-1 successfully launched as part of an International Space Station (ISS<\/abbr>) resupply mission from NASA<\/abbr>\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility<\/a> in Virginia on Friday, October 2. The small satellite involved more than 100 University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> students, faculty, staff and volunteers, and will measure neutrons in space and radiation coming from the Sun.<\/p>\n

Neutron-1 was aboard the ELaNa 31, NG-14 rocket as part of a rideshare mission, which included other satellites, and will be in space for approximately one year. When astronauts set up the deployer pod for launch out of the ISS<\/abbr> around mid-November, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Flight Laboratory<\/a> (HSFL<\/abbr>) will continue to be the primary driver for the Neutron-1 mission.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> students, faculty, staff and volunteers were able to view the rocket launch live on NASA<\/abbr> TV and can be viewed on the HSFL<\/abbr> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"rocket<\/div>\n
\"rocket<\/div>\n

“I am thrilled. This is a great achievement of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½\u2019s<\/span> Neutron-1 team of students, staff and faculty,” said Peter Englert<\/strong>, a Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Geophysics and Planetology<\/a> (HIGP<\/abbr>) researcher and principal investigator for the Neutron-1 mission. “It demonstrates the quality of undergraduate education and research in space science and engineering at the university.”<\/p>\n

“This mission development demonstrates that HSFL<\/abbr> can deliver flight hardware and work collaboratively with other institutions regarding NASA<\/abbr> planetary exploration,” said Lloyd French<\/strong>, HSFL<\/abbr> researcher and project manager for the Neutron-1 mission. “Small spacecraft and cubesat architectures are the next generation of planetary robotic exploration, and HSFL<\/abbr> is poised to take advantage of the opportunity.”<\/p>\n

This is HSFL<\/abbr>\u2019s second completed spacecraft. In 2016, the first iteration of the Neutron-1 payload was lost due to a failed suborbital rocket that was launched from Wallops Flight Facility.<\/p>\n

“Watching the NG<\/abbr>-14 launch from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia was an amazing opportunity to reflect how far we have come as a team, how many students were impacted by the project, and all of the lessons that were learned along the way,” said Amber Imai-Hong<\/strong>, an avionics engineer at HSFL<\/abbr> and ground station coordinator for the Neutron-1 mission. “Watching a rocket ascend to space is always amazing, and to know that this leg of the journey is complete was a huge relief.”<\/p>\n

The team is now gearing up for mission operations. HSFL<\/abbr> will control Neutron-1 via the GlobalStar network, and partner with amateur radio operators to communicate with the satellite through HSFL<\/abbr>\u2019s Kauaʻi<\/span> Community College Ground Station to receive and send messages to the satellite when it is released from ISS<\/abbr> in November.<\/p>\n

The Neutron-1 project was funded by a NASA<\/abbr> EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development award, and the team conveys special thanks to the Air Force Research Lab for providing solar cells for the project.<\/p>\n

\"group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neutron-1 launched as part of an International Space Station resupply mission from NASA<\/abbr>\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on October 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[170,406,64,1363,174,9],"class_list":["post-128280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-hawaii-institute-of-geophysics-and-planetology","tag-hawaii-space-flight-laboratory","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-manoa-research","tag-space","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128280"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128302,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128280\/revisions\/128302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}