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H-IIA 202 | GPM-Core

GPM Core

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 27 Feb 2014, 06:37 pm UTC

Rocket: H-IIA (H-II)

Provider: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Mission Description

Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours.