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.
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GSFC_20140106_GPM_m10786_in_Japan
Date Created
January 6, 2014
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GSFC
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video
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Ryan Fitzgibbons, John Caldwell, Michael Starobin
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Goddard Space Flight Center
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