{"id":48829,"date":"2016-08-17T14:40:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T00:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=48829"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T01:13:40","slug":"project-imua-payload-successfully-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/17\/project-imua-payload-successfully-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Imua payload successfully launched"},"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\/IKFV97E8i7c?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Editors Note, August 17, 2016: <abbr title=\"National Aeronautic and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr>&#8217;s Wallops Flight Facility said in a statement following today&#8217;s launch, &ldquo;Data was received from most of the student experiments. However, the payload was not recovered as planned. <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> will investigate the anomaly.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Terrier Improved-Malemute suborbital sounding rocket carrying a payload developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> students launched from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/wallops\/home\"><abbr>NASA<\/abbr>&#8217;s Wallops Flight Facility<\/a> in Virginia, August 17. The rocket launched around 7:33 a.m. <abbr title=\"Eastern Standard Time\">EST<\/abbr> (around 1:33 <abbr title=\"before noon\">a.m.<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"Hawaii Standard Time\">HST<\/abbr>) and reached a height of 95.29 miles.<\/p>\n<p>A team of three mentors and eight students was at Wallops for the launch. The initiative known as Project Imua involves students from four <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Communty College campuses. The project provides them with real-life hands-on aeronautical engineering experiences with <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>. This was the Project Imua team&#8217;s second <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> launch and second payload.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48841\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/system-project-imua-rocket-260x197.jpg\" alt=\"Two views of a rocket launch\" width=\"260\" height=\"197\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/system-project-imua-rocket-260x197.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/system-project-imua-rocket.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Project Imua payload launch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Their second payload, developed by students from four community college campuses, was named <abbr>PrIME<\/abbr> (Project Imua Multiple Experiment). Included in <abbr>PrIME<\/abbr>:<\/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. <abbr>ScubeR<\/abbr> (Super Simple Sublimation Rocket) will be deployed at the peak of the <abbr>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>The rocket had been scheduled to launch August 16, but the launch had to be scrubbed due to boats being in the hazard area off the coast.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Â鶹´«Ã½News video: Project Imua team ready for second <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> launch<\/h2>\n<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Project Imua payload developed by students from four <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> community colleges launched from <abbr title=\"National Aeronautic and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr>&#8217;s Wallops Flight Facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":48858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[62,63,64,855,71,56,66],"class_list":["post-48829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-project-imua","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-project-imua-rocket-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48829","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=48829"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124709,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48829\/revisions\/124709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}