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(Project Manager Art Azarbarzin) DPR is the acronym, is a Dual Precipitation Radar, so it's comprised of

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two radars. The complete two separate
boxes roughly about you know four

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hundred kilogram type, pretty sized,
pretty big radars. They,  one is at 13

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gigahertz, the other at 35 gigahertz. The
radars, once they arrive here they go

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through some processing make sure during a shipment there was no damage done to

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radars. Even though we do have shock
monitors on the boxes that make sure

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there was no, no unexpected incident
happened during the transportation.

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However, despite, in spite of that we
still go to a processing in-house here

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that we check and make sure functionally
they're still working properly. Before

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they hand it over to NASA. And that would take over the course of a two-week

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period before we have our official
review. That we go through a readiness of

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NASA of accepting that and putting it on
a spacecraft. And JAXA also presents

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to us that they have done all the
testing that following the arrival at

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Goddard that everything meets the
requirements as expected. And then the

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instruments are handed over to us.

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(Deputy Proj. Mgr. Candace Carlisle) The Dual Precipitation Radar or DPR has two parts.

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The first is the Ka PR and the second is Ku PR. Those are two different bands and it provides measurements

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simultaneous measurements in both of the bands and it can be used to make

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combined products together with the GMI that allow the scientists to determine a

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lot more about precipitation from rain
through snow be it light or be it heavy

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than they know today.