GPM Launch Multimedia Package
A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen launching from th Tanegashima Space Center, 1:37 PM (EST) on Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, Tanegashima Space Center. The GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours.
GPM Launch 2-27-14
Recording of the live launch coverage featuring Aries Keck, Dalia Kirschbaum, Walt Petersen, and Tom Wagner.
Post launch commentary by Dalia Kirschbaum and Aries Keck.
Video File of the GPM Launch
Caroline Kennedy, English speaking portion of Postlaunch Briefing from Japan.
Michael Freilich, English speaking portion of Postlaunch Briefing from Japan.
Art Azarbarzin, English portion of the postlaunch briefing.
Feed of the fairing separation, JAXA
SRB-A Jettison, JAXA
Separation of the GPM Core Observatory spacecraft, JAXA.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
- Chris Meaney (HTSI)
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Video editors
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
- Michael Randazzo (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
- Swarupa Nune (Vantage)
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Interviewees
- Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC)
- Tom Wagner (NASA)
- Walt A. Petersen (NASA/GSFC Wallops)
- Gail Skofronick Jackson (NASA/GSFC)
- Candace C Carlisle (NASA/GSFC)
- Ardeshir A Azarbarzin (NASA/GSFC)
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Producers
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
- Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC)
- Michelle Handleman (USRA)
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Scientists
- Gail Skofronick Jackson (NASA/GSFC)
- Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC)
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Project support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Pat Kennedy (HTSI)
- Matthew R. Radcliff (USRA)
- Katie Lewis (USRA)
- Katrina Jackson (ARTS)
- Nasreen Alkhateeb (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (HTSI)
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Videographers
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Michael Starobin (HTSI)
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Brooke Harris (USRA)
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
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Writers
- Aries Keck (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC)
- Ellen T. Gray (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, February 26, 2014.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
GPM Launch NASA TV Event
(ID: 2014008)
Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 5:00AM
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