Ready, set, space: NASA's GPM satellite begins journey
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 17:20
in Astronomy & Space
For the past three years, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory has gone from components and assembly drawings to a fully functioning satellite at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The satellite has now arrived in Japan, where it will lift off in early 2014.