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GPM spacecraft successfully launched from Tanegashima Space Center (VIDEO)

Tanegashima, Japan - It is a joint project between NASA and JAXA for climate observation

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), thundered into space at 3:37 am on Thursday, February 27 Japan time (6:37 pm GMT(UTC on Thursday). The four-ton spacecraft launched aboard a Japanese H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. The GPM...

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