launch
![Handover of GPM Key Handover of GPM Key](/sites/default/files/imageGallery/gpm_handover_1.jpeg)
Also pictured, left to right, Wynn Watson, Art Azarbarzin, Gail Skofronick-Jackson and David Ward.
![Daruma Doll Delivery Daruma Doll Delivery](/sites/default/files/imageGallery/team_2.jpg)
![Coloring in the Daruma Doll Eye Coloring in the Duruma Doll Eye](/sites/default/files/imageGallery/jaxacoloreye.jpg)
This signifies the successful completion of on-orbit check out of the GPM Core Observatory.
![GPM Launches from Tanegashima Space Center GPM Launches from Tanegashima Space Center](/sites/default/files/imageGallery/12820310483_7c8a14985c_o.jpg)
A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen launching from the Tanegashima Space Center, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, Tanegashima, Japan. 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. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
GPM Launches from Tanegashima Space Center
A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen launching from the Tanegashima Space Center, 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 Liftoff
![GPM Liftoff GPM Liftoff](/sites/default/files/imageGallery/gpm-liftoff-full.jpg)