Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Launch Site at
JAXA's Tanegashima Space Center
The launch pads at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA)
Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island, Japan are seen on Friday, Feb.
21, 2014, a week ahead of the planned launch of an H-IIA rocket carrying the
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory. GPM is an international
mission led by NASA and JAXA to measure rain and snowfall over most of the globe
multiple times a day. To get that worldwide view of precipitation, multiple
satellites will be contributing observations for a global data set, all unified
by the advanced measurements of GPM's Core Observatory, built at NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Launch of the GPM Core Observatory from Tanegashima Space Center is scheduled
for Thursday, Feb. 27 during a window beginning at 1:07 p.m. EST (3:07 a.m. on
Friday, Feb. 28 Japan time).
Image Credit: NASA/Bill
Ingalls
NASA
Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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