NASA and JAXA Launch New Satellite to Measure Global Rain and Snow

NASA and JAXA Launch New Satellite to Measure Global Rain and Snow
Tanegashima, Japan (SPX) Mar 03, 2014 - The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), thundered into space at 1:37 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 27 (3:37 a.m. JST Friday, Feb. 28) from Japan. The four-ton spacecraft launched aboard a Japanese H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/NASA_and_JAXA_Launch_New_Satellite_to_Measure_Global_Rain_and_Snow_999.html