{"id":57140,"date":"2017-03-07T16:58:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T02:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=57140"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:51:15","slug":"project-imua-team-looking-forward-to-third-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/07\/project-imua-team-looking-forward-to-third-rocket-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Imua team looking forward to third rocket 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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/189246610\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" title=\"Vimeo video player\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A team of <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> community college<\/a> students gathered at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/wallops\/home\"><abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr>&#8217;s Wallops Flight Facility<\/a> in Virginia in August 2016 to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/17\/project-imua-payload-successfully-launched\">launch scientific experiments they had designed and built into space<\/a>. A <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> videographer documented their journey.<\/p>\n<p>Project Imua is a joint faculty-student enterprise of four <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> community college campuses (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kauai.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a>). Its primary mission is to engage undergraduate students in project-based research with real-world STEM applications by developing small payloads for space flight. <\/p>\n<p>Project Imua&#8217;s first payload was launched on a <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> sounding rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in the summer of 2015. Its second payload named PrIME (Project Imua Multiple Experiment), consisted of a neutron-gamma ray detector and an innovatively powered rocket that was deployed at a height of 96 miles. Nicknamed ScubeR (for Super Simple Sublimation Rocket) for its motor&#8217;s simplicity in the use of a mothball-like naphthalene propellant that transformed from solid to vapor. Although the sounding rocket&#8217;s sub-orbital flight on August 17, 2016 was successful, <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> search planes were unable to find and recover the payload containing the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> experiments. The payload was declared lost at sea in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>The Project Imua team is currently designing their third payload\u2014PrIMEAT (pronounced primate) for Project Imua Multiple Experiment Attempt Two. This payload consists of many of the subsystems from the lost 2016 flight. On board are improved versions of ScubeR, which includes a heating coil for added thrust, an infrared laser rangefinder, a lookback camera for photographing the payload from space, video and still cameras for monitoring ScubeR and several motion tracking devices. PrIMEAT is scheduled for launch from <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Wallops Flight Facility in August 2017.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/project-imua\/\">Read more <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> News stories on Project Imua<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57143\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/system-project-imua-2nd-launch.jpg\" alt=\"Students looking at Project Imua's payload\" width=\"620\" height=\"401\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/system-project-imua-2nd-launch.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/system-project-imua-2nd-launch-260x168.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Imua&#8217;s 2016 payload.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> videographer Kjell Redal&#8217;s documentary looks back on Project Imua&#8217;s second launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34,182,406,62,63,64,855,71,56,66],"class_list":["post-57140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","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-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\/57140","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=57140"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124687,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140\/revisions\/124687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}