News and Features
Mission News
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NASA Invites Media to JAXA-NASA Social
04.08.13 - NASA invites the news media to attend its 'Cherry Blossoms' NASA Social event at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. on Friday, April 12.
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2013 PMM Science Team Meeting
03.21.13 - The NASA Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team for the TRMM and GPM missions met on March 18-21, 2013 in Annapolis, MD.
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GPM Undergoes Electromagnetic Testing
03.15.13 - Following the completion of thermal vacuum testing in January 2013, the Core Observatory team started the Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) test phase.
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GPM Completes Thermal Vacuum Testing
01.31.13 - The GPM Core Observatory completed thermal vacuum testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. on Jan. 16, 2013. After twelve days to carefully remove the testing equipment, stow the High Gain Antenna and GPM Microwave Imager, and lift the spacecraft out of the thermal vacuum test chamber, the spacecraft was moved back to the clean room on Jan. 28.
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GPM Continues Environmental Testing
12.17.12 - The GPM Core spacecraft has completed hot and cold thermal balance testing in the thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Next it will undergo hot and cold cycle thermal vacuum testing, where the temperatures are alternatively raised to 40 degrees C and lowered to -14 degrees C over the course of the next few weeks.