GPM Arrives in Japan
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.
For complete transcript, click here.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Writer
- Ellen T. Gray (NASA/HQ)
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Video editor
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Scientists
- Candace C Carlisle (NASA/GSFC)
- Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Narration
- Ellen T. Gray (NASA/HQ)
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Narrator
- Ellen T. Gray (NASA/HQ)
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Videographers
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Michael Starobin (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Missions
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This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
GPM's Journey to Japan
(ID: 2013104)
Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 5:00AM
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