{"id":48432,"date":"2016-08-04T15:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T01:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=48432"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:29:56","slug":"project-imua-team-ready-for-second-nasa-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/04\/project-imua-team-ready-for-second-nasa-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Imua team ready for second <abbr title=\"National Aeronautic and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> launch"},"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\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VzyqLVcCbDw?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Project Imua team members have held several successful mission simulations of their second payload named <abbr title=\"Project Imua Multiple Experiment\">PrIME<\/abbr> for Project Imua Multiple Experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Project Imua (to move forward in Hawaiian) is a joint faculty-student enterprise of four <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> campuses to develop small payloads for spaceflight while providing undergraduates with hands-on learning in <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and math\">STEM<\/abbr> fields. This is reflected in the experiments the students created to be flown into space:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A neutron-gamma ray detector designed and fabricated by <a href=\"http:\/\/kauai.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr><\/a>, a prototype, which is being tested for a possible future orbital flight.<\/li>\n<li>An innovatively powered rocket designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> and fabricated using a 3-D printer. ScubeR (Super Simple Sublimation Rocket) will be deployed at the peak of the <abbr title=\"National Aeronautic and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> sounding rocket&#8217;s flight.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> has configured two on-board Mobius Action cameras to record video and pictures of the flight and has selected a motion tracker to record g-forces.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> team developed the payload&#8217;s interface boards for power and conditioning and data processing and transfer, as well as the housing for these circuits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;The neutron detector that <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> helped build is the first of its kind,&rdquo; said Kauai <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student <strong>Kaina Allard-Mahoney<\/strong>. &ldquo;It&#8217;s going into space, it was developed by real students at a community college and it&#8217;s going on a <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> rocket. Great project. Great experience.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<h2>An exciting first<\/h2>\n<p>Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> professor and Project Imua Manager <strong>Joseph Ciotti<\/strong> says their rocket is another first. He said, &ldquo;The propellant we are using is what people normally use for mothballs. It&#8217;s naphthalene and that will turn from a solid to a gas and propel the rocket, and this is the first time that this is being done in space. So, it is kinda exciting!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is the second of two years for the project funded with a half-million dollar <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> grant awarded to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Grant Consortium<\/a>, which includes $200,000 in student internships.<\/p>\n<p>Windward student <strong>Cale Mechler<\/strong> is a two-year team member who got to see the launch of the first Project Imua payload from <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/wallops\/home\/\">Wallops Flight Facility<\/a> in Virginia in August of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This has been an awesome experience,&rdquo; said Mechler. &ldquo;Being able to do the same things that any company that wants to fire a rocket with <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> goes through&#8212;we went through all the same stages.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Those stages included having their experiments launched into space, having the rocket retrieved and returned to <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> and opening up their payload to retrieve the data from their experiments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What&#8217;s great about it is it provides students an opportunity hands-on, project-based, to learn <abbr>STEM<\/abbr>-oriented projects and get familiar with careers in aerospace engineering,&rdquo; said Ciotti.<\/p>\n<p>A team of three mentors and eight students will return to Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to conduct final tests for integration and launch on a <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> sounding rocket. This sub-orbital flight, which will carry the payload to an altitude of approximately 100 miles during its 15-minute mission, is scheduled for launch on August 16, 2016.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48430\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/system-imua-payload2.jpg\" alt=\"Student working on a laptop\" width=\"620\" height=\"383\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/system-imua-payload2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/system-imua-payload2-260x161.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus Yamaguchi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>360-degree virtual reality views of the <abbr>PrIME<\/abbr> payload and the sublimation rocket ScubeR<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aerospace.wcc.hawaii.edu\/Project_Imua\/PrIME_Imua\/VR%20PrIME%20with%20ScubeR.html\"><abbr>PrIME<\/abbr> with ScubeR attached<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aerospace.wcc.hawaii.edu\/Project_Imua\/PrIME_Imua\/VR%20PrIME%20without%20ScubeR.html\"><abbr>PrIME<\/abbr> without ScubeR (after it is released)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aerospace.wcc.hawaii.edu\/Project_Imua\/PrIME_Imua\/VR%20ScubeR%20Horizontal.html\">ScubeR &#43; Hammerhead  (horizontal orientation)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aerospace.wcc.hawaii.edu\/Project_Imua\/PrIME_Imua\/VR%20ScubeR%20Vertical.html\">ScubeR &#43; Hammerhead (vertical orientation)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aerospace.wcc.hawaii.edu\/Project_Imua\/PrIME_Imua\/PrIME.html\">Stats and overhead view of <abbr>PrIME<\/abbr> and ScubeR<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;Images courtesy of Joseph Ciotti<\/p>\n<h2>More about the first Project Imua launch<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/12\/nasa-rocket-launches-uhs-scientific-payload-into-space\/\"><abbr>NASA<\/abbr> rocket launches <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8217;s scientific payload into space<\/a>, August 12, 2015 <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H_Pjav4ibhU?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/16\/project-imua-takes-education-out-of-this-atmosphere\/\">Project Imua takes education out of this atmosphere<\/a>, July 16, 2015 <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qeMZ1ROSiKU?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/12\/project-by-uh-community-college-students-space-bound\/\">Project by <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College students space bound<\/a>, June 12, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RU8lrzOsKQQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team successfully conducted final mission simulation tests of their payload and scientific experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":48433,"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-48432","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":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/system-imua-payload-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48432","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=48432"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174187,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48432\/revisions\/174187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}