{"id":21127,"date":"2013-11-20T09:52:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T19:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=21127"},"modified":"2020-07-07T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:22:21","slug":"satellite-built-by-uh-students-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/20\/satellite-built-by-uh-students-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast off! <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> student-built satellite deployed"},"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><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z36X04sW-BY\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>November 19, 2013: A historic day for the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa. <\/p>\n<p>A United States Air Force rocket launch from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/wallops\/\"><abbr>NASA<\/abbr>&#8217;s Wallops Flight Facility<\/a> in Wallops Island, Virginia carried the first <abbr>UH<\/abbr> made satellite into space.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That was incredible,&rdquo; said <strong>Larry Martin<\/strong>, a graduate student in engineering at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Small Satellite Program team member. &ldquo;I can&#8217;t believe what I just saw.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As it was lifting off, I was kind of waiting for the sound and once the sound hit me, it was more than I expected,&rdquo; said fellow graduate student and team member <strong>Windell Jones<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Jones and Martin were at the launch to witness the event along with Professor <strong>Wayne Shiroma<\/strong>, the chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ee.hawaii.edu\/\">electrical engineering department<\/a> and founder of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Small Satellite Program. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was such a great relief,&rdquo; said Shiroma moments after the launch. &ldquo;You know we started this small satellite program in 2001, that&#8217;s 12 years ago. So seeing this thing light up and reach orbit is an incredible feeling.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is years in the making and we can finally say we&#8217;re in space,&rdquo; said Martin. &ldquo;We&#8217;ve done it and we have this under our belt so an incredible accomplishment.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21134\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cubesat-trio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cubesat-trio.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cubesat-trio-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Wayne Shiroma, Larry Martin and Windell Jones watch the Minotaur rocket, carrying their CubeSat, launch at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Martin and Jones were among 50 engineering students in the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Small Satellite Program who spent the last four years designing and building the cube satellite or CubeSat from scratch, under professor Shiroma&#8217;s guidance. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It just feels awesome that I can say now that a project I worked on is now in space,&rdquo; said Jones as he still stared up into the sky after the launch. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is the value of hands on, open ended projects that the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> College of Engineering is famous for,&rdquo; added Shiroma. <\/p>\n<p>Called the <span aria-labeil=\"Hooponopono\">Ho&#699;oponopono<\/span> 2, or H2, the CubeSat represents cutting edge technology. It is about the size of a loaf of bread, weighs nine pounds, cost $220,000 to build and is replacing a satellite 20 times larger and 40 times more expensive. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is an educational project at a minimum but we are also providing a real need for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Air Force and that&#8217;s the icing on the cake,&rdquo; said Martin. &ldquo;We are really demonstrating something here.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>H2&#8217;s experimental mission is an important one, performing radar calibration and performance monitoring for U.S. Department of Defense and <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> radar stations that track various objects in space like missiles, aircraft, rockets, satellites, asteroids and space junk. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This project is a testament to the type of opportunities we have at <abbr>UH<\/abbr>,&rdquo; said Martin. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s been the students training students and they get all the credit for this,&rdquo; said Shiroma. <\/p>\n<h2>Additional <abbr>UH<\/abbr> story on <span aria-labeil=\"Hooponopono\">Ho&#699;oponopono<\/span> 2<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/25\/satellite-built-by-uh-students-headed-to-space\/\">Satellite built by <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students headed to space<\/a> (VIDEO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s student-built cube satellite launched on a Minotaur rocket at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia on November 19, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[179,9],"class_list":["post-21127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-college-of-engineering","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\/21127","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=21127"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122198,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21127\/revisions\/122198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}