GPM Preparing to Leave the Thermal Vacuum Chamber
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GPM being prepared to leave the thermal vacuum chamber. This is a view from the side with the MLI and cryo panels removed.
GPM Leaving the Thermal Vacuum Chamber
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Preparing the GPM Core Observatory to be removed from the thermal vacuum chamber.
GPM Completes Thermal Vacuum Testing
The GPM Core Observatory is lifted out of the Thermal Vacuum Chamber at NASA Goddard. Video Credit: Ryan Fitzgibbons (ambient audio only) 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. Preparing the GPM Core Observatory to be removed from the thermal vacuum chamber. Beginning
GPM Exits Thermal Vacuum Chamber
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.
GPM Launch Animation
This animation shows the launch and deployment of the GPM Core Observatory. GPM is scheduled to launch in 2014 on an H-IIA rocket in Japan.