MEDIA ADVISORY: Launch of NASA rocket carrying UH Community College experiment postponed to Aug. 11

The Project Imua launch has been postponed due to bad weather at Wallops Flight Facility

University of Hawaiʻi
Contact:
Kelli Abe Trifonovitch, (808) 228-8108
Chief Communications Officer, UH Office of Communications
Posted: Aug 10, 2022

@NASA_Wallops tweet from Aug. 10. 2022
@NASA_Wallops tweet from Aug. 10. 2022

NOTE: Launch has been rescheduled to Thursday, Aug. 11 between 5:30–9 p.m. EDT (11:30 a.m.–3 p.m. HST)

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: Launch had been scheduled for August 10, but has been rescheduled for Thursday, Aug. 11 between 5:30–9 p.m. EDT (11:30 a.m.–3 p.m. HST), “due to unacceptable weather in the Wallops area.”

WHO: The Project Imua Mission 10 team comprises students and staff from UH Community Colleges. 

  • Windward CC students designed and built a camphor-powered sublimation rocket that should be deployed at the peak of the NASA rocket’s flight—at approximately 91 miles altitude. 

  • 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 is one of six developed by college and university teams across the nation that are being flown through the RockSat-X program, which gives students at post-secondary institutions the experience of building experiments for space flight.

OTHER FACTS:

  • There will be live coverage of the launch on the Wallops YouTube site.

  • UH Communications plans to send a video news release a few hours after the launch on Thursday, August 11.

  • Mission 10 represents the fourth time that a UH Project Imua payload will be launched into outer space. The first Project Imua payload was launched from Wallops in 2015.