{"id":37386,"date":"2015-08-12T08:59:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=37386"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:46:50","slug":"nasa-rocket-launches-uhs-scientific-payload-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/12\/nasa-rocket-launches-uhs-scientific-payload-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>NASA<\/abbr> rocket launches <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges\u2019 scientific payload into space"},"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\" title=\"Youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H_Pjav4ibhU\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37392\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37392\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/project-imua-launch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/project-imua-launch.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/project-imua-launch-206x260.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A two-stage Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket launched on August 12, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> community college<\/a> students watched their scientific payload spin into space on August 12 when a two-stage Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket was launched around midnight <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> time from <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/wallops\/home\/\">Wallops Flight Facility<\/a> in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Students from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu Community College<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi\u02bbolani<\/span> Community College<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kauai.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua\u02bbi<\/span> Community College<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a> are part of a collaboration known as Project Imua, a joint faculty-student enterprise for designing, fabricating and testing payloads.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> team was the only community college team whose payload was selected for this launch. Payloads developed by students from seven higher education programs were aboard the rocket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just see the thing ignite and shoot off into the sky. It\u2019s the most amazing feeling in the world, especially since we\u2019ve been working on it for over a year. And we are finally seeing all of our hard work pay off,\u201d said <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi\u02bbolani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student <strong><span aria-label=\"Kalaimoana\">Kala\u02bbimoana<\/span> Garcia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a long trip. It\u2019s taken nine months to get here, so its really exciting that we are finally getting a launch that\u2019s going to be the culmination of what we\u2019ve been working for,\u201d said Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student <strong>Cale Mechler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The scientific instrument that forms the main component of Project Imua\u2019s payload consists of a <abbr>UV<\/abbr> spectrometer that will analyze the intensity of the sun\u2019s ultraviolet radiation before it enters Earth\u2019s atmosphere. The data could have implications regarding climate.<\/p>\n<p>After achieving an altitude of 94-miles, plans were for the payload with the students\u2019 experiments to be recovered in the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia coast. The experiments and any stored data would then be provided to the teams to analyze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really a system-wide collaboration, an effort to bring new industry and new technology into the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> economy,\u201d said <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua\u02bbi<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student <strong>Marcus Yamaguchi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Added <strong>Suraj Mehta<\/strong> of Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr>, \u201cWe can do anything just like anywhere else in the world. We have facilities and we have come so far. Project Imua means to move forward and we have definitely moved forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>View more Project Imua photos on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uhawaii\/sets\/72157651984332484\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Flickr site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>About Project Imua<\/h2>\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\u0101noa, <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu\/\"> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Space Grant Consortium<\/a> campus, which provides technical assistance through <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Space Flight Laboratory\u2019s resources and personnel.<\/p>\n<h2>More Project Imua news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/11\/nasa-scrubs-rocket-launch-carrying-project-imua-payload-reschedules-for-august-12\/\">\u201cNASA scrubs rocket launch carrying Project Imua payload, reschedules for August 12\u201d<\/a> \u2013 August 11, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/10\/uh-community-college-students-prepare-for-nasa-launch\/\">\u201cÂ鶹´«Ã½Community College students prepare for NASA launch\u201d<\/a> \u2013 August 10, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/16\/project-imua-takes-education-out-of-this-atmosphere\/\">\u201cProject Imua takes education out of this atmosphere\u201d<\/a> \u2013 July 16, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/26\/project-imua-payload-tested-at-nasas-wallops-flight-facility\/\">\u201cProject Imua payload tested at <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility\u201d<\/a> \u2013 June 26, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/12\/project-by-uh-community-college-students-space-bound\/\">\u201cProject by <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College students space bound\u201d<\/a> \u2013 June 12, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u2014By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> community college students watched their scientific payload spin into space aboard a <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> rocket.<\/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":[34,182,406,62,63,64,855,174,71,56,66],"class_list":["post-37386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","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\/37386","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=37386"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174239,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37386\/revisions\/174239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}