Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) was a joint space mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA designed to monitor and study tropical rainfall. The term refers to both the mission itself and the satellite that the mission used to collect data. TRMM was part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, a long-term, coordinated research effort to study the Earth as a global system. The satellite was launched on 27 November 1997 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, Japan. TRMM operated for 17 years, including several mission extensions, before being decommissioned on 15 April 2015. TRMM re-entered Earth's atmosphere on 16 June 2015.
Q5916
space mission
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Q23548
NASA
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Q179103
JAXA
ORG
Q42530
tropical
LOC
Q7925
rainfall
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Q26540
satellite
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Q6952398
Mission to Planet Earth
UNK
Q2
Earth
CEL
Q742683
Tanegashima Space Center
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Q696228
Tanegashima
LOC
Q17
Japan
LOC
Q2001116
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
MISC
1997-11-27T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
27 November 1997
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2015-04-15T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
15 April 2015
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2015-06-16T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
16 June 2015
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17
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UTC date of spacecraft launch
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