Launch Of Joint NASA-JAXA Climate Mission Could Slip Six Months

A planned July 2013 launch of the nearly $1 billion Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) core spacecraft could slip six months due to a variety of technical issues plaguing the international weather- and climate-monitoring project, a senior NASA official says. A joint mission with the Japan...

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