  {"id":96658,"date":"2019-05-16T13:49:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T23:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=96658"},"modified":"2020-08-07T13:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:48:35","slug":"project-imua-nasa-rookie-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/16\/project-imua-nasa-rookie-award\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Project Imua rocketry team wins <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> rookie award"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_94219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94219\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-2019-launch-big-2.jpg\" alt=\"Team posing with rocket and Hawaii flag\" width=\"676\" height=\"494\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-2019-launch-big-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-2019-launch-big-2-130x95.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-2019-launch-big-2-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Imua Team 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fourteen students from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward<\/a> Community Colleges and the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a>, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/imua.wcc.hawaii.edu\/\">Project Imua<\/a> Mission 6 team, have been recognized for rocketry excellence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/05\/project-imua-rocket-launch-nasa-competition\/\">The <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> team launched its rocket and payload in Alabama<\/a> in the April <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/forstudents\/studentlaunch\/home\/index.html\">2019 <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Student Launch competition<\/a>. <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> won the Rookie Award, given to the top new team in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Project Imua team also finished in the top 10 out of 45 teams in the college\/university division, at No. 9. Vanderbilt University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the University of Akron, Ohio, were the top three finishers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-2019-launch-2-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Project Imua rocket launching\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-94205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-2019-launch-2-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-2019-launch-2-87x130.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/system-project-imua-2019-launch-2.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The real-life engineering skills and confidence that our students developed in this challenging competition will launch them onward to exciting careers,&rdquo; said Project Imua Manager Joe Ciotti, a professor at Windward Community College.  &ldquo;For them now, not even the sky is the limit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/project-imua\/\">Read more about previous Project Imua launches.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This year\u2019s challenge, hosted by <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, tasked student teams to propose, design, build and test a reusable rocket with a payload. The rocket had to reach a team-selected altitude between 4,000 and 5,500 feet. Once reaching its highest point, the rocket deployed a recovery system and landed safely. The payload had to be a drone or rover that autonomously deployed from the rocket after landing. <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> engineers face similar questions as they design the Space Launch System rocket to send astronauts and payloads to the Moon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/marshall\/news\/news\/releases\/2019\/19-018.html\">Read the <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> news release for more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> students launch rocket in <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> competition<\/h2>\n<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_56366\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sXF502hEx54?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=\"UH students launch rocket in NASA 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UH team launched its rocket and payload in the April 2019 NASA Student Launch competition and won the Rookie Award, given to the top new team in the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[406,871,62,63,855,71,9,56,66],"class_list":["post-96658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-hawaii-space-flight-laboratory","tag-hawaii-space-grant-consortium","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-project-imua","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","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\/96658","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=96658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124617,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96658\/revisions\/124617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}