{"id":163325,"date":"2022-08-11T13:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T23:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=163325"},"modified":"2022-08-12T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T02:24:38","slug":"uh-experiment-launched-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/11\/uh-experiment-launched-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College experiment launched into space on <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> rocket"},"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_31472\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s3dGTbUeLzY?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=\"Â鶹´«Ã½Community College experiment launched into space on NASA rocket\"  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>Mission accomplished! At 12:08 p.m. <abbr title=\"Hawaii standard time\">HST<\/abbr> on August 11, 2022, a 44-foot <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> sounding rocket blasted off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia carrying a scientific experiment designed by University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College students about 91 miles into space.<\/p>\n<p>Project Imua is a joint faculty-student enterprise of multiple <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Community College campuses in affiliation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Grant Consortium<\/a> that provides students with real-world, project-based learning opportunities. Students from Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> and Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> had been working on Project Imua Mission 10 for months and were delighted to see their &ldquo;baby&rdquo; finally take flight.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_163413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163413\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/system-project-imua-launch-08-2022-5.jpg\" alt=\"rocket blasting off\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/system-project-imua-launch-08-2022-5.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/system-project-imua-launch-08-2022-5-130x130.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-163413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo credit: <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Wallops\/Terry Zaperach)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_163336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163336\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/system-project-imua-launch-08-2022-4.jpg\" alt=\"rocket blasting off\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/system-project-imua-launch-08-2022-4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/system-project-imua-launch-08-2022-4-130x130.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-163336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo credit: <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Wallops\/Terry Zaperach)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> students designed and built a camphor-powered sublimation rocket that was deployed at the peak of the <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> rocket\u2019s flight\u2014at approximately 91 miles altitude. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> team designed a camera system and inertial measurement unit devices to monitor the sublimation rocket\u2019s motion.<\/p>\n<p>Project leader <strong>Jared Estrada<\/strong>, a Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student, said, &ldquo;The launch was an amazing spectacle that served as a crowning achievement for the scientific endeavors of Project Imua.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Project Imua provided hands-on rocketry experience both in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and at <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>. In June, two students traveled to the Wallops facility to run final tests on their Project Imua payload.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/26\/payload-for-space-launch-tested-at-nasa-facility\/\">Payload for space launch tested at <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> facility<\/a>, June 26, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few days prior to the launch, the rest of the Project Imua team was in Virginia for fine tuning and final integration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The hands-on, authentic research conducted by our <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College students challenges them to set their sights on lofty goals, while building the demanding skills required in high-tech, <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> careers,&rdquo; said Project Manager <strong>Joe Ciotti<\/strong>, a Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> professor. &ldquo;They\u2019ve learned through their intense year-long collaboration with <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> engineers that, when it comes to dreams and achievements, the sky\u2019s the limit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/project-imua\/\">More Project Imua stories<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After reaching its peak, the payload carrying the experiments descended by parachute and landed in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Virginia coast. Plans were for the students to receive their flown experiments and any stored data after the payload was recovered from the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>More Project Imua missions are scheduled to fly for <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s future rocket scientists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<em>By Kelli Abe Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_163329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163329\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/system-project-imua-launch-08-2022-1.jpg\" alt=\"people standing in from of a rocket\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/system-project-imua-launch-08-2022-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/system-project-imua-launch-08-2022-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/system-project-imua-launch-08-2022-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-163329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Joe Ciotti, Quinn-Patrick O\u2019Malley, Caleb Yuen, Frank Bolanos, <abbr title=\"Roman numeral four\">IV<\/abbr>, Jared Estrada and Shidong Kan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College students practice rocket science at <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>.<\/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":[240,415,182,871,62,124,855,313,71,947,56,66],"class_list":["post-163325","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-uh-system","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\/163325","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=163325"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163416,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163325\/revisions\/163416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}