GPM Arrives in Japan

  • Released Monday, January 6, 2014
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Built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the GPM spacecraft travelled roughly 7,300 miles (11,750 kilometers) to its launch site at Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island, Japan, where it is scheduled for liftoff on Feb 27, 2014 1:07 pm (EST). GPM's Core Observatory is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to study rainfall and snowfall around the globe, including weather and storms that the Core Observatory previewed on its trans-Pacific journey.

A short video showing GPM's arrival in Japan in preparation for launch in early 2014.

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This page was originally published on Monday, January 6, 2014.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM EDT.

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  • GPM's Journey to Japan (ID: 2013104)
    Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 5:00AM