Flight Project Image Gallery

GPM Flags Welcome Visitors to Minamitame Town.	Entrance Sign to JAXA's Tanegashima Space Center	Sunset at Tanegashima Island	JAXA Topiary at Tanegashima Space Center
Launch Site at Tanegashima Space Center	The GPM Core Observatory being encapsulated into the HII-A rocket fairing.	The GPM Core Observatory being encapsulated into the HII-A rocket fairing.	On Feb. 11, the Core Observatory was moved into the spacecraft fairing assembly building and into the Encapsulation Hall. Final inspections and preparations were completed for the installation into the fairing, which began on Feb 13.
Attaching solid rocket boosters to GPM's launch vehicle, the HII-A No. 23.	GPM's launch vehicle, the H-IIA No.23, first stage VOS (Vehicle On Stand).	GPM on its last truck during shipment to the launch site.	The GPM Core Observatory in the clean room at Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
The GPM spacecraft oriented for inspections after its arrival in the clean room at Tanegashima Space Center.	The mechanical team has only a few inches of clearance between the L-frame and the satellite.	A freshly paved concrete staging area supported a massive crane as it lifted the satellite into the cargo hold of an ocean barge.	GPM's shipping container is unloaded from the U.S. Air Force C-5 cargo plane that carried it to Japan.

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