{"id":160555,"date":"2022-06-13T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=160555"},"modified":"2022-06-15T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T21:59:14","slug":"nasa-rocket-launch-uh-community-college-student-payload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/13\/nasa-rocket-launch-uh-community-college-student-payload\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA rocket to launch UH<\/abbr> Community College student payload"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Nikki Arakawa, D\u2019Elle Martin at Windward CC<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A NASA rocket scheduled for space launch in August will carry a scientific payload designed and built by University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> students. When the rocket launched from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia reaches sub-orbital flight, it will release the student-built experiment.<\/p>\n

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D\u2019Elle Martin, Frank Bolanos, Caleb Yuen at Windward CC<\/abbr>
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The Project Imua Mission 10<\/a> students have been collaborating on this project for months. Windward CC<\/abbr><\/a> students designed and built a camphor-powered sublimation rocket that will convert the camphor to gas to propel the small, light-weight rocket once the payload is released at the peak of the NASA rocket\u2019s flight. The Honolulu CC<\/abbr><\/a> team designed a camera system and inertial measurement unit devices to monitor the sublimation rocket\u2019s motion. The entire payload is less than a foot long, weighs less than 15 pounds and is almost entirely encased in aluminum.<\/p>\n

“Project-based research like Mission 10 offers UH<\/abbr> Community College students unique opportunities to explore and prepare for high-tech, STEM careers while working alongside NASA engineers,” said Project Manager Joe Ciotti<\/strong>, a Windward CC<\/abbr> professor. “For these students, this really is rocket science and one powerful confidence builder.”<\/p>\n

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D\u2019Elle Martin, Jake Hudson at Windward CC<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Project Imua (to move forward in ʻ\u014dlelo Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>) is a joint faculty-student enterprise of multiple UH<\/abbr> Community College campuses in affiliation with the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Grant Consortium<\/a> that provides students with real-world, project-based learning opportunities. Students experiment with high-power rocketry and design and fabricate small payloads for space flight. Kauaʻi<\/span> CC<\/abbr><\/a> and Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr><\/a> have been part of earlier missions.<\/p>\n

Later in June, Windward CC<\/abbr> faculty mentor Jacob Hudson<\/strong>, Windward CC<\/abbr> team lead Nikki Arakawa<\/strong> and Honolulu CC<\/abbr> team lead D\u2019Elle Martin<\/strong> will travel to the NASA facility to run the Project Imua Mission 10 payload through rigorous testing. Mission 10 represents the fourth time that a UH<\/abbr> Project Imua payload will be launched into outer space. The first Project Imua payload<\/a> was launched from Wallops in 2015.<\/p>\n

Read more UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> stories on the Project Imua program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Project Imua Mission 10\u2019s scientific student-built payload will be released into space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[871,62,63,64,855,71,66],"class_list":["post-160555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-hawaii-space-grant-consortium","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-project-imua","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t