{"id":63578,"date":"2017-08-09T09:38:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=63578"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:18:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:18:39","slug":"uh-community-college-students-project-imua-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/09\/uh-community-college-students-project-imua-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Community College students prepare to launch payload from NASA<\/abbr> flight facility"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Editor’s Note (August 14): The Project Imua payload was successfully launched Sunday, August 13 at 5:30 a.m. EDT<\/abbr>. According to Honolulu Community College mentor William Smith, the sounding rocket went about 96 miles high and returned down into the Atlantic about 80 miles from shore. It was fished out of the sea (recovered) by a contracted local fishing boat. For images of Project Imua 2017, see the Flickr album<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note (August 11): Due to weather conditions, the launch has been rescheduled to Sunday, August 13 between 5:30 and 9:30 a.m. EDT<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

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Nicholas Herrmann and Cale Mechler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

University of Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> community college<\/a> students are getting ready to launch their third payload from a NASA<\/abbr> facility. The launch from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled for a window between 5:30 and 9:30 a.m. EDT<\/abbr> on Saturday, August 12. (See editor’s note above.)<\/p>\n

Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 5 a.m. EDT<\/abbr> on the Wallops Ustream<\/a> site. Launch updates also are available via the Wallops Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> sites. Facebook Live coverage begins at 5:15 a.m. EDT<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

Smartphone users can download the What\u2019s Up at Wallops app, which contains information on the launch as well as a compass showing the precise direction for launch viewing.<\/p>\n

Project Imua is a joint faculty-student enterprise of four UH<\/abbr> community college campuses (Honolulu<\/a>, Kapi\u02bbolani<\/span><\/a>, Kaua\u02bbi<\/span><\/a> and Windward<\/a>). Its primary mission is to engage undergraduate students in project based STEM<\/abbr> research with real-world development of small payloads for space flight. A NASA<\/abbr> grant awarded to the Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Space Grant Consortium has helped to fund the project.<\/p>\n

Honolulu CC<\/abbr> Project Imua Mentor Will Smith<\/strong> and students Cale Mechler<\/strong> and Nick Herrmann<\/strong> are at Wallops in final preparations for Saturday\u2019s launch. Another mentor and other UH<\/abbr> community college students traveled to Wallops this past June to conduct preliminary tests on the payload.<\/p>\n

For more on the August 12 launch and the participating universities and colleges, see the NASA<\/abbr> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more images of Project Imua 2017, see the Flickr album<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read previous UH<\/abbr> News on Project Imua<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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