Governor David Ige commends Project Imua team members

Governor David Ige with the University of Hawai‘i’s Project Imua team members.

Governor David Ige presented commemorative plaques to Project Imua team members from University of Hawai’i campuses across the state during a recognition ceremony at the State Capitol on October 23. Project Imua (Hawaiian for “to move forward”) is a joint faculty-student enterprise for designing, fabricating and testing payloads. The actual Project Imua Payload that flew into space this past summer was also displayed during the ceremony.

On August 12, 2015 University of Hawaiʻi community college students watched their scientific/engineering payload spin into space when a two-stage Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket was launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Project Imua is supported by UH Mānoa, UH’s main Hawaiʻi Space Grant Consortium (HSGC) campus, which provides technical assistance through Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL)’s resources and personnel.

Read more about it in the UH System News.