The GPM Core Observatory, a joint NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement mission, launched aboard an H-IIA from Tanegashima to map global rainfall and snowfall as the constellation's primary spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.9 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 27 February 2014, 18:37 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2014-009
- Launches in 2014
- 9th of 92
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