{"id":88859,"date":"2018-12-17T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=88859"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:24:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:24:24","slug":"students-build-rocket-nasa-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/17\/students-build-rocket-nasa-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Community College students build rocket for potential <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics 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-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_75912\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrUmIXzJfWQ?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Â鶹´«Ã½Community College students build rocket for potential NASA launch\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> students are designing and building a rocket and payload to be launched from a <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> flight facility as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/forstudents\/studentlaunch\/teams\/index.html\"><abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Student Launch Competition<\/a>. Ten <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> students from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward<\/a> Community Colleges and three from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa comprise the <a href=\"http:\/\/imua.wcc.hawaii.edu\/\">Project Imua<\/a> Mission 6 team.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Student Launch is a competition hosted by <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> annually and it\u2019s a prestigious competition where they have teams build a launch vehicle and build a payload specified to each year\u02bbs requirements,&ldquo; explained Windward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> student and rocket team leader <strong>Katherine Bronston<\/strong>. &ldquo;This year we\u2019re building a 10-foot rocket that will go about a mile, not quite a mile, into the air and then it will land in two independent sections and a rover will come out, intended for soil collection.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student <strong>Mia Fong<\/strong> leads the payload team that is designing and building the rover. She said, &ldquo;It\u2019s been really interesting to learn all about this process especially because the <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> competition mimics the [real-life] <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> design review, you kind of get to see what it would be like in industry before actually getting there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As part of their preparation for Mission 6 and to test their rocket\u2019s design, the Project Imua students recently launched small-scale rockets at Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Project Imua started as a collaboration between four <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges in 2014 to provide students with real-life aeronautical engineering experiences with <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/project-imua\/\">Read more <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> stories about Project Imua<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s so that students have a hands-on project-based educational experience and by doing this they learn all the rules that <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> expects from any company that they are going to subcontract to,&rdquo; said Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Instructor <strong>Jacob Hudson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Project Imua team was informed by <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> in October 2018 that they had been selected to compete in the 2019 <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Student Launch. Teams are challenged to &ldquo;call their shot&rdquo; and predict before launch day how high their rocket will fly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Grant Consortium<\/a> awarded Project Imua a grant of $65,931, which will cover the materials, student stipends and travel expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Project Imua will have a design review by <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> in January 2019, to see if their rocket will be approved to launch at <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama in April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Bronston said, &ldquo;It\u2019s very exciting to get to work with <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> and to get to design our own project and to see it launch and to see it actually work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the Project Imua team\u2019s progress in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imua.wcc.hawaii.edu\/\">Project Imua website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketryUhcc?lang=en\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uhccrocketry\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uhccrocketry\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCS5BT3yY3CFYK7bBYDlKZMw\">Youtube<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88850\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/project-imua-2.jpg\" alt=\"students assembling rockets\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/project-imua-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/project-imua-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Imua Mission 6 team preparing to launch small-scale rockets at Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students from Honolulu, <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> and Windward Community Colleges and three from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa comprise the Project Imua Mission 6 team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[182,871,62,63,855,174,71,9,56,66],"class_list":["post-88859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-engineering","tag-hawaii-space-grant-consortium","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-project-imua","tag-space","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-manoa","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\/88859","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=88859"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124639,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88859\/revisions\/124639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}