Instagram: Rainfall Satellite Out of Fuel
This is a 15 second Instagram video about NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. On July 8, TRMM's fuel tank indicated that the satellite was nearly at the end of its fuel supply. NASA has ceased maneuvers to keep the satellite at its operating altitude of 402 kilometers. With its speed decreasing, TRMM has begun to drift downward. As it slowly descends towards Earth, in the next two to three years, it will continue to collect useful data.
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Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Joy Ng (USRA)
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Narrator
- Joy Ng (USRA)
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Project support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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This page was originally published on Thursday, September 25, 2014.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:50 PM EDT.