{"id":36139,"date":"2015-06-26T14:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=36139"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:47:55","slug":"project-imua-payload-tested-at-nasas-wallops-flight-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/26\/project-imua-payload-tested-at-nasas-wallops-flight-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Imua payload tested at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/project-imua-wallops-testing1.jpg\" alt=\"people examining the Project Imua payload\" width=\"620\" height=\"370\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/project-imua-wallops-testing1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/project-imua-wallops-testing1-260x155.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kauai.hawaii.edu\/\">Kaua&#699;i Community College<\/a> student <strong>Nick Herrmann<\/strong> was pleasantly surprised to be mistaken for a <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> employee. In June, Herrmann was one of five <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College<\/a> students who traveled to <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/wallops\/home\/\">Wallops Flight Facility<\/a> in Virgina to test the scientific payload they had developed in order to ensure that their instruments are ready to be launched in August.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><stsrong>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/12\/project-by-uh-community-college-students-space-bound\/\">&ldquo;Project by <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community College students space bound<\/a>,&rdquo; June 12, 2015<\/stsrong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Herrmann helped to integrate the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr><abbr>CC<\/abbr> payload onto the main rocket and, like the other students there, was wearing an official blue jacket to protect against electrostatic discharge when someone walked up to him and started talking rocket-scientist shop. &ldquo;It was cool!&rdquo; recounted Herrmann.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community College students are part of a collaboration known as Project Imua (Hawaiian for &lsquo;to move forward&rsquo;). Comprised of four <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community College campuses, Project Imua involves a joint faculty-student enterprise for designing, fabricating and testing payloads.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kauai.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> designed and built the payload&#8217;s instrumentation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> designed the payload&#8217;s electronic circuitry for power and telemetry.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> designed the associated print circuit board.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr><\/a> integrated all the components together and performed static tests on the payload.<\/li>\n<li>Both Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> and <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> designed and constructed the payload&#8217;s mechanical housing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> faculty member <strong>Jacob Hudson<\/strong> was proud of how the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community College students were able to work with other university students from much bigger schools with greater resources. Hudson said, &ldquo;They were dealing with university students who were several years more advanced and were holding their own in concept discussions and work ethic.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;ve learned a lot about how <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> operates and all the procedures they have to go through to launch something into space,&rdquo; said <strong>Kalanikapu Copp<\/strong> from Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Mau<\/strong>, a Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student concurred, &ldquo;People here will talk about something over and over again, until the idea is perfected.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights was viewing an early morning rocket launch, similar to what will occur when their scientific payload is launched into space in August.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;ve never had an interest in aerospace engineering or &lsquo;space stuff&rsquo; before taking on this internship,&rdquo; said Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student <strong>Elena Barbour<\/strong>. &ldquo;This has shown me that even if I feel like I can&#8217;t do something that seems too hard or out of my league, I should do it anyway.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The scientific instrument that forms the main component of Project Imua&#8217;s payload consists of a <abbr>UV<\/abbr> spectrometer that will analyze the intensity of the sun&#8217;s ultraviolet radiation before it enters Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. The data could have implications regarding climate.<\/p>\n<p>Project Imua is funded by a two-year $500,000 grant awarded under the <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Space Grant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.federalgrants.com\/National-Space-Grant-College-And-Fellowship-Program-Competitive-Opportunity-For-Partnerships-With-Community-Colleges-And-Technical-Schools-45307.html\">Competitive Opportunity for Partnerships with Community Colleges and Technical Schools<\/a>. Project Imua is supported by <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa<\/a>, 糖心Vlog官方&#8217;s main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Space Grant Consortium<\/a> campus, which provides technical assistance through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsfl.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Space Flight Laboratory<\/a>&#8217;s resources and personnel.<\/p>\n<p>On August 11, 2015 a rocket carrying Project Imua&#8217;s payload will be launched from Wallops into suborbital flight. The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community College team was the only community college whose payload was selected for this launch.<\/p>\n<p>Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s <strong>Debora Pei<\/strong> said, &ldquo;The excellent progress we have made with Project Imua demonstrates how, with adequate funding and solid opportunities, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> students can compete side-by-side with other great minds all across the country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36156\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/project-imua-wallops-testing2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"418\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/project-imua-wallops-testing2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/project-imua-wallops-testing2-260x175.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Imua payload vibration test on shake table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>View more photos on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uhawaii\/sets\/72157651984332484\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Flickr site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community College students collaborate to build aerial payload to be launched in August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34,182,406,871,62,63,64,855,174,71,9,66],"class_list":["post-36139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-astronomy","tag-engineering","tag-hawaii-space-flight-laboratory","tag-hawaii-space-grant-consortium","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-project-imua","tag-space","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-manoa","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\/36139","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=36139"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174245,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36139\/revisions\/174245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}