{"id":35636,"date":"2015-06-12T14:05:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=35636"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:48:38","slug":"project-by-uh-community-college-students-space-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/12\/project-by-uh-community-college-students-space-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Project by <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Community College students space bound"},"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\/RU8lrzOsKQQ\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Students from four <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Colleges<\/a> are in the final phases of developing and testing a scientific instrument that is scheduled to be launched into space from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/wallops\/home\/index.html\"><abbr>NASA<\/abbr>&#8217;s Wallops Flight Facility<\/a> in Virginia. <\/p>\n<p>On August 11, a rocket carrying a payload designed and built by students from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kauai.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> will be launched from Wallops into suborbital flight. The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College team was the only community college whose payload was selected for this launch. <\/p>\n<p>The multi-campus collaboration known as Project Imua (Hawaiian for &ldquo;to move forward&rdquo;) involves a joint faculty-student enterprise for designing, fabricating and testing payloads. Future launches are envisioned at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> through the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsfl.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Flight Laboratory<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the Project Imua students conducted a major test of their scientific instrument this past week, using <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Flight Laboratory&#8217;s vibration table. The electrodynamic vibration system is one of a series of tests of the scientific payload. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35640\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/uhcc-imua.jpg\" alt=\"Project Imua students\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/uhcc-imua.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/uhcc-imua-260x173.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Imua students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Each Project Imua campus brings unique expertise and skills to the table. <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> was responsible for designing and building the payload&#8217;s instrumentation. In close collaboration, Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> is designing the payload&#8217;s electronic circuitry for power and telemetry, while <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> is designing the associated print circuit board. Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> is tasked with integrating all the components together and performing static tests on the payload. Both Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> and <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> designed and constructed the payload&#8217;s mechanical housing. <\/p>\n<p>The scientific instrument that forms the main component of Project Imua&#8217;s payload consists of a <abbr>UV<\/abbr> spectrometer that will analyze the intensity of the sun&#8217;s ultraviolet radiation before it enters Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. The importance of studying the radiation variations is that the changes in <abbr>UV<\/abbr> output directly affect Earth&#8217;s upper atmosphere and ultimately have consequences on our climate. <\/p>\n<p>Project Imua is funded by a two-year $500,000 grant awarded under the <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Space Grant Competitive Opportunity for Partnerships with Community Colleges and Technical Schools. Project Imua is supported by <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa, the main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Grant Consortium<\/a> campus, which provides technical assistance through <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Flight Laboratory&#8217;s resources and personnel. <\/p>\n<p>During Imua&#8217;s two-year period, about 100 scholarships will be awarded to students at the four <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College campuses. These students will be provided training and hands-on experience in the design, construction and test phases involved in fabricating small payloads. Students also participate in periodic teleconferences with the RockSat-X coordinators. These review sessions simulate that same procedures required by <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> contractors involved in space flight, thus providing students a unique experience with aerospace engineering protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from four University of Â鶹´«Ã½ Community Colleges are in the final phases of developing and testing a scientific instrument that is scheduled to be launched into space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[34,182,406,62,63,64,855,174,71,56,66],"class_list":["post-35636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-astronomy","tag-engineering","tag-hawaii-space-flight-laboratory","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-project-imua","tag-space","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\/35636","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=35636"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174249,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636\/revisions\/174249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}