Spectacular UH Project Imua space video inspires awe
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University of Hawaiʻi
The UH Community College students' cameras recorded their sublimation rocket in space.
Team leader Jared Estrada watches mentor Shidong Kan receive Project Imua’s experiment.
Link to video and sound (details below): https://bit.ly/3bZX85j
WHAT: A University of Hawai‘i Community College experiment captured incredible video more than 90 miles above Earth that shows its student-built sublimation rocket deploying from a NASA rocket.
HOW: On August 11, a 44-foot NASA sounding rocket blasted off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia carrying a scientific experiment designed by Project Imua Mission 10 students.
WHO: Project Imua is a joint faculty-student enterprise of multiple UH Community College campuses in affiliation with the Hawaiʻi Space Grant Consortium that provides students with real-world, project-based learning opportunities.
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Windward CC students designed and built a camphor-powered sublimation rocket (named ScubeR, for Super Simple Sublimation Rocket) that was deployed at the peak of the NASA rocket’s flight—at approximately 99 miles altitude.
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The Honolulu CC team designed cameras and measurement devices to monitor the sublimation rocket’s motion.
OTHER FACTS:
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Next up, Project Imua Mission 11. The team plans to launch a custom-built rocket equipped with a land rover and atmospheric detector at the ARLISS 2022 Come-Back competition in Nevada in September.
VIDEO:
B-ROLL:
:00 Project Imua video: The opening shows the limb of the Earth against the blackness of space and clouds covering the Atlantic. It then pans to show the second stage (of the sounding rocket) that separated moments ago, spinning as it falls back to Earth. Nearby is the outer protective skirt, tumbling after being dropped from the payload section.
:30 ScubeR (the student-built sublimation rocket, with an orange nose cone) begins to be deployed.
1:33-1:40 Still of team at NASA Wallops Flight Facility retrieving their payload and data
1:40-1:53 stills of Project Imua Mission 10 experiment back from space
SOUND:
Jared Estrada, Project Imua team leader (:05)
“Overall it was a very wonderful opportunity, a very exciting opportunity and overall amazing time.”
Estrada (:11)
“I would say Mission 10 is an excellent opportunity for students and overall awe inspiring for the scientific and engineering process.”