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GPM Solar Array Deployment Test

Friday, July 5, 2013

By Kasha Patel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Original www.nasa.gov Feature (published 7/1/13) NASA successfully completed two pre-vibration solar array deployment tests of the Global Precipitation Measurement satellite on June 6 and June 15, 2013. This video montage shows scenes from the test deployments of both GPM Core satellite solar arrays in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in June 2013. Video Credit: NASA Goddard “Cross your fingers. Cross your toes,” said Art Azarbarzin, GPM project manager, as he watched engineers take their places around the...

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Deployment test of one of the GPM Core satellite's solar wings on Thursday, June 6, 2013. The array measures 18.8 feet long and 9.2 feet wide, and it consists of four solar panels. Each panel contains between 800 and 1,200 solar cells.

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Solar Array Deployment Test

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A solar array wing begins to release from the GPM Core satellite in a deployment test on Thursday, June 6, 2013.

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GPM Spreads Its Wings in Solar Array Deployment Test

This video montage shows scenes from the test deployments of both GPM Core satellite solar arrays in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in June 2013.

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GPM Core Completes EMI/EMC Testing

Monday, May 20, 2013

An engineer stands next to the GPM Core Observatory in the EMI/EMC test chamber at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Image Credit: NASA The GPM Core Observatory completed the EMI/EMC test at Goddard Space Flight Center in May 2013. The Observatory is now going through pre-vibration activities, including solar array deployments.

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IFloodS Observes Severe Storm Outbreak

Friday, June 14, 2013

Development of low storm clouds in the atmospheric mixing layer over the NPOL and D3R radars on June 12, 2013 at ~12:00 p.m. CDT. Credit: Walt Petersen /NASA . On Wednesday afternoon, June 12, a severe storm outbreak developed and moved across central and eastern Iowa, and then western Illinois, spawning huge thunderstorms and several tornadoes. NASA's Polarimetric (NPOL) precipitation radar, currently deployed in Iowa as part of the Iowa Flood Studies field campaign for the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, rapidly scanned these storms as they moved across the state. NPOL capturing...

GPM Microwave Imager Components Animation

This animation depicts the various components of the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI).

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GPM: Too Much, Too Little

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Researchers need accurate and timely rainfall information to better understand and model where and when severe floods, frequent landslides and devastating droughts may occur. GPM’s global rainfall data will help to better prepare and respond to a wide range of natural disasters.

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Dalia: GPM will help us to understand precipitation extremes. And this is everything from too much rainfall, such as flooding in India or Southeast Asia, to too little rainfall such as drought in the U.S. Southwest.

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Campaign to Improve Flood Forecasting

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

By Ellen Gray, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Original www.nasa.gov Feature (published 4/30/13) Ground data now being collected in northeastern Iowa by the Iowa Flood Studies experiment will evaluate how well NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission satellite rainfall data can be used for flood forecasting. GPM is an international satellite mission that will set a new standard for precipitation measurements from space, providing worldwide estimates of precipitation approximately every three hours. The GPM Core Observatory, provided by NASA and mission partner the Japan Aerospace...