NASA rocket carries UH Community College students’ experiment into space
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University of Hawaiʻi
Credit: NASA Wallops/Terry Zaperach
The NASA rocket lifted off from Wallops Flight Facility at 12:08 p.m. HST.
From L: Joe Ciotti, Quinn-Patrick O’Malley, Caleb Yuen, Frank Bolanos, IV,Jared Estrada, Shidong Kan
Link to video and sound (details below): https://bit.ly/3Ahu5DN
WHAT: Launch of a 44-foot NASA sounding rocket carrying a scientific experiment designed and built by UH Community College students into space.
WHERE: NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
WHEN: 12:08 p.m. HST, August 11, 2022
WHO: The Project Imua Mission 10 team comprises students and staff from UH Community Colleges.
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Windward CC students designed and built a camphor-powered sublimation rocket that was deployed at the peak of the NASA rocket’s flight—at approximately 91 miles altitude.
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The Honolulu CC team designed a camera system and inertial measurement unit devices to monitor the sublimation rocket’s motion.
WHY: Project Imua (which means to move forward in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi) provides students with real-world, project-based learning opportunities, including experimenting with high-power rocketry, and designing and fabricating small payloads for space flight.
HOW: Project Imua’s experiment was one of six developed by college and university teams across the nation that were flown through the RockSat-X program, which gives students at post-secondary institutions the experience of building experiments for space flight.
OTHER FACTS:
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After flying to around 91 miles altitude, the payload carrying the experiments descended by parachute, landing in the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia coast, Plans were for the students to receive their flown experiments and any stored data after the payload was recovered from the ocean.
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Mission 10 was the fourth time that a UH Project Imua payload was launched into space. The first Project Imua payload was launched from Wallops in 2015.
VIDEO:
B-ROLL:
:00-:51 Launch (with countdown)
:51-1:31 UH Community College students watch and react to launch
SOUND:
Jared Estrada, Project Imua, Windward CC student (:05)
“The launch was an amazing spectacle that served as a crowning achievement for the scientific endeavors of Project Imua.”
Estrada (:11)
“I think the public needs to know that Project Imua represents an amazing opportunity for students to get involved in the engineering and scientific process and that ultimately the project does great work in its research and development.”