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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS
AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

GODDARD SPACE
FLIGHT CENTER

PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MISSIONS

GPM Image Gallery

Preparing the GPM Core Observatory to be removed from the thermal vacuum chamber.	GPM being prepared to leave the thermal vacuum chamber. This is a view from the side with the MLI and cryo panels removed.	The GPM Core Observatory being lifted into the thermal vacuum chamber for testing.	Crane lifting the GPM Core Observatory into position for TVAC testing.
The GPM Core Observatory being lifted into the thermal vacuum chamber for testing.	Engineers guiding the GPM Core Observatory into the TVAC chamber.	Closeup of the GPM Core Observatory as its lifted into the thermal vacuum chamber for testing.	Engineers check on the GPM spacecraft after successful completion of its first comprehensive performance test.
This is the GPM Flight Project team (along with some science and outreach personele) outside the GPM integration and test facility at Goddard Space Flight Center.	NASA engineers Rob Gallagher (left), Ken Smith (right) and Deneen Ferro (inside the spacecraft, center) work on the GPM Core satellite in the clean room at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Md.	The GPM Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) integrated on the GPM Core Observatory.	The GPM Microwave Imager (GMI) integrated on the GPM Core Observatory in a cleanroom at Goddard Space Flight Center.
NASA and JAXA officials at the DPR sign-off event.	NASA and JAXA scientists examining the DPR at Goddard Space Flight Center during the DPR sign-off event.	Mr. Massahiro Kojima and Art Azarbarzin shaking hands at the DPR sign-off event.	Mr. Massahiro Kojima and Art Azarbarzin signing the DPR transfer papers.