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Satellite Programme:
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
Programme details
Programme description
Single satellite programme, addressing the Global Energy and Water-cycle Experiment (GEWEX).
Joint NASA-JAXA programme: NASA responsible of platform, passive instruments and operations, JAXA of the precipitation radar and the launch service.
The platform is actively stabilised over 3 axes.
The design life time of the satellite is 3 years.
Drifting, low inclination orbit for frequent observation of the tropical zone.
See detailed description at http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov .
Data circulation
Real-time transmission through the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS).
The science data are processed by NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and by JAXA at the Earth Observation Research Center (EORC).
Agencies
NASA
, JAXA
Programme lifetime
1997 - 2015
Associated satellites and instruments
Note: red tag => no longer operational , green tag => operational
, blue tag => planned
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 released
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 was released including new features related to Gap Analysis and satellite status information. With version 2.6 OSCAR/Space has a new URL; https://space.oscar.wmo.int . Please read more via the link here .