{"id":161304,"date":"2022-06-26T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=161304"},"modified":"2022-06-29T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T23:05:11","slug":"payload-for-space-launch-tested-at-nasa-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/26\/payload-for-space-launch-tested-at-nasa-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Payload for space launch tested at <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_41415\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBNZWllzoCc?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Payload for space launch tested at NASA facility\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Two University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College students and their advisor spent more than a week at the <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to prepare their scientific payload for a space launch in August. They are part of a team of <a href=\"http:\/\/imua.wcc.hawaii.edu\/missions.html\">Project Imua Mission 10<\/a> students who have been collaborating on this project for months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_161331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161331\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-12-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"student working on equipment\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-161331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-12-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-12-98x130.jpg 98w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-12.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student D\u2019Elle Martin downloads data following payload testing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> students designed and built a small, light-weight rocket that will convert camphor to gas to propel its release into space at the peak of the <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> rocket\u2019s flight. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> team designed a camera system and inertial measurement devices to monitor the motion of the small experimental rocket. The entire payload is less than a foot long, weighs less than 15 pounds and is almost entirely encased in aluminum.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> stories on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/project-imua\/\">Project Imua program<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Students trouble-shoot payload<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>After the payload failed an initial power test, Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student <strong>Nikki Arakawa<\/strong>, the rocket team lead, had to rewire the interface and power connections. Following another successful power test, Arakawa was able to turn the payload over to the Wallops integration team for placement in the rocket to be launched in August.<\/p>\n<p>Arakawa, who graduated with her bachelor\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa in May 2022 and was recently part of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/21\/first-nations-rocket-competition\/\">award-winning rocketry team<\/a>, said she is now considering going to graduate school to study aerospace mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_161329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161329\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-7.jpg\" alt=\"3 people by rocket\" width=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-7.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-7-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-7-105x130.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D\u2019Elle Martin, Jacob Hudson and Nikki Arakawa at <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Wallops Flight Facility.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-161327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-0.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-0-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-0-93x130.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;I only just had a chance to start trying out all these things, and it just feels like&#8212;gosh I just wish I started this a lot earlier,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>While at <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>, <strong>D\u2019Elle Martin<\/strong>, the team lead for Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr>, ran checks on the various systems, including the video capture units.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What I realized throughout this project and through my previous project with Honolulu Community College&#8212;through both electronics programming and model rocketry&#8212;is that even though you might have a major that may not be necessarily towards engineering, you can still learn a lot about working in a team, but also different pathways to STEM careers,&rdquo; Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>The current <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa architecture student said the Project Imua experience has inspired her to consider the nascent specialization of space architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Arakawa and Martin were accompanied by mentor <strong>Jacob Hudson<\/strong> from Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>. Mentor <strong>Shidong Kan<\/strong>, a Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> associate professor of physics, will escort four students to the <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> facility for final integration of the payload onto the rocket and launch, which is tentatively scheduled for August 9. <\/p>\n<p>Mission 10 is funded through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Grant Consortium<\/a> and represents the fourth time that a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Project Imua payload will be launched into outer space.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/12\/nasa-rocket-launches-uhs-scientific-payload-into-space\/\">first Project Imua payload<\/a> was launched from Wallops in 2015. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_161328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161328\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-2.jpg\" alt=\"student working on equipment\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/uhcc-project-imua-2022-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student Nikki Arakawa works on the Project Imua payload.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College students tested their scientific payload at a <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[240,415,182,871,62,124,855,313,71,56,66],"class_list":["post-161304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-architecture","tag-electronics-technology","tag-engineering","tag-hawaii-space-grant-consortium","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-physics","tag-project-imua","tag-stem","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-video-2","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161304","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=161304"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161458,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161304\/revisions\/161458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}