{"id":94051,"date":"2019-04-04T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T22:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=94051"},"modified":"2020-08-07T13:51:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:51:40","slug":"project-imua-alabama-prep-nasa-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/04\/project-imua-alabama-prep-nasa-rocket-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Community College students in Alabama prep for <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> competition rocket launch competition"},"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_22853\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O_MS5WI_LMQ?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 in Alabama prep for NASA rocket launch competition\"  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<figure id=\"attachment_94092\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94092\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-1-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-1-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-1.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student Lauren Grzegorczyk preps the rocket with Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> mentor Jacob Hudson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ten <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/a>, comprising the <a href=\"http:\/\/imua.wcc.hawaii.edu\/\">Project Imua<\/a> Mission 6 team, are in Alabama, preparing to launch the rocket and payload they designed and built for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/forstudents\/studentlaunch\/teams\/index.html\"><abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> Student Launch Project competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe the best part of Project Imua is just the hands-on experience. Rocketry is something that I\u2019ve always found super interesting,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> student <strong>Lauren Grzegorczyk<\/strong>. &ldquo;Our team for this specific project had to design, engineer\u2013this is all real-world experience we\u2019re gaining. It\u2019s just a type of experience that you can\u2019t really replicate in classes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Student Launch competition teams are challenged to &ldquo;call their shot&rdquo; and predict before launch day how high their rocket will fly. Project Imua\u2019s 10-foot-tall rocket is named &ldquo;Fissure 8&rdquo; after the prominent volcanic vent in the 2018 eruption on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island. Their payload is a four-wheeled rover named &ldquo;<span aria-label=\"Hoomau\">Ho&#699;omau<\/span>&rdquo; (the Hawaiian values of perseverance and persistence), designed to travel 10 feet before collecting a soil sample.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94091\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-2-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-2-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-pre-2.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Manoa mechanical engineering student Matthew Nakamura works on the Project Imua rocket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The challenge is being held near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/marshall\/home\/index.html\"><abbr>NASA<\/abbr>\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center<\/a> in Huntsville, Alabama, culminating with student rocket launches on April 6, 2019, and featuring the work of 52 teams from 21 states.<\/p>\n<p>At the welcome ceremony for the competition, students heard from <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Deputy Manager Trey Cate about the Space Launch System (<abbr>SLS<\/abbr>), the most powerful rocket <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> has ever built. &ldquo;<abbr>SLS<\/abbr> will enable astronauts to begin their journey to explore destinations far into the solar system,&rdquo; according to <abbr>NASA<\/abbr><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Takahashi<\/strong>, a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa mechanical engineering student, said, &ldquo;I would describe rocket science to be very challenging, difficult at times, sometimes it\u2019s also very stressful, but, at the end of the day, it\u2019s very rewarding.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Project Imua\u2019s primary mission is to develop small payloads for space flight while providing undergraduates with project-based learning opportunities in <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> fields. <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 covered materials, student stipends and travel expenses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>:  <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> will be livestreaming the launches, currently slated for Saturday, April 6, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASAStudentLaunch\"><abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Student Launch Facebook page<\/a>. The broadcast will start at 8:40 a.m. Central Daylight Time (<abbr>CDT<\/abbr>). Livestream of the launches includes interviews with the teams and <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> <abbr>VIP<\/abbr>s and guests. The launches typically conclude around 2 p.m. <abbr>CDT<\/abbr>, when the broadcast will wrap.<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/project-imua\/\">Read more about previous Project Imua launches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Imua\u2019s rocket is 10 feet tall, and their payload is a four-wheeled rover designed to travel 10 feet before collecting a soil sample.<\/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":[182,406,871,62,63,855,174,71,9,947,56,66],"class_list":["post-94051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-engineering","tag-hawaii-space-flight-laboratory","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-uh-system","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\/94051","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=94051"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124624,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94051\/revisions\/124624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}