{"id":71892,"date":"2014-02-28T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T12:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=71892"},"modified":"2014-02-28T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T12:31:25","slug":"successful-launch-for-rain-tracking-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=71892","title":{"rendered":"Successful launch for rain-tracking satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese rocket roared into orbit early Friday (Thursday afternoon ET) carrying what NASA calls its most precise instrument yet for measuring rain and snowfall.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/01\/22\/tech\/innovation\/nasa-satellite-launches\/\"> the first of five earth science launches <\/a>NASA has planned for 2014. The 4-ton spacecraft is the most sophisticated platform yet for measuring rainfall, capable of recording amounts as small as a hundredth of an inch an hour, said Gail Skofronick Jackson, GPM&#8217;s deputy project scientist.<\/p>\n<p>The $900 million satellite is a joint project with the Japanese space agency JAXA, and it lifted off from Tanegashima Space Center at 3:37 a.m. Friday (1:37 p.m. Thursday ET). In a little over a half hour, it had reached orbit, deployed its solar panels and began beaming signals back to its controllers, NASA said.<\/p>\n<p>That data will boost not only immediate storm forecasts, but also aid climate scientists who have been working on long-term models of a changing world.<\/p>\n<p>The craft has enough fuel for at least five years and is expected to last longer &#8212; so when combined with earlier missions, it will give NASA an unbroken 25- to 30-year rainfall record, Jackson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese rocket roared into orbit early Friday (Thursday afternoon ET) carrying what NASA calls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}