Open AccessU.S. rainfall satellite missions in flux
Author(s) -
Zielinski Sarah
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2005eo440004
Subject(s) - satellite , environmental science , meteorology , agency (philosophy) , climatology , precipitation , fiscal year , global precipitation measurement , geography , engineering , business , geology , finance , philosophy , epistemology , aerospace engineering
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) received a reprieve in September when the agency decided to continue the mission until at least fiscal year 2009 and possibly until 2012. Earlier agency plans had called for discontinuing TRMM this year while the satellite still had enough fuel for a controlled re‐entry. Despite the TRMM reprieve, however, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is already preparing for TRMM's replacement, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission.