{"id":98694,"date":"2019-06-20T14:38:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=98694"},"modified":"2021-08-31T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:46:46","slug":"manoa-students-launch-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/20\/manoa-students-launch-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa students launch rocket, two payloads in 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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/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_28988\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5RU2yqbfShk?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´«Ã½Manoa students launch rocket, two payloads in 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<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Engineering<\/a> students launched and recovered the rocket and payloads they built for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceportamericacup.com\/\">Spaceport America Cup<\/a> competition hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundingrocket.org\/\">Experimental Sounding Rocket Association<\/a> on June 19, 2019, in Las Cruces, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-project-hokulele-launch-1.jpg\" alt=\"rocket launching\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-98704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-project-hokulele-launch-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-project-hokulele-launch-1-130x130.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I feel incredible right now,&rdquo; said junior <strong>Kobe Taylor<\/strong>, who served as electronics subsystems lead. &ldquo;Project H&#333;k&#363;lele has been a wonderful experience for me. I got to learn many important lessons during the planning and execution process of building the rocket as well as earning many valuable memories that I will have for the rest of my life. The launch was a beautiful success and I am excited to come back next year.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/18\/manoa-students-rocket-launch-competition\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa students in New Mexico prep for rocket launch competition<\/a>, June 18, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nine <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa engineering students comprise the Project H&#333;k&#363;lele team, and worked on the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Aerospace Technologies Vertically Integrated Project (<abbr>VIP<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>The project was made possible with $10,000 in funding from the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/urop\/\">Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program<\/a> and $1,000 from the College of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_98705\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98705\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-project-hokulele-launch-2.jpg\" alt=\"2 people and a rocket\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-project-hokulele-launch-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-project-hokulele-launch-2-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-project-hokulele-launch-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Engineering students Kobe Taylor and Nhue Lac helped to recover the rocket.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa College of Engineering students launched and recovered the rocket and payloads they built for the Spaceport America Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[179,182,9,1497],"class_list":["post-98694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-uh-manoa","tag-urop","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98694","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=98694"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124613,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98694\/revisions\/124613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}