Aug 7 2004
From The Space Library
NASA and NOAA announced that the two agencies would extend the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) by five months, effectively reversing an earlier decision to terminate the weather satellite's mission. NASA and NOAA also announced that they had requested the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate the utility of extending the satellite's mission for an additional 18 months. Launched in 1997, the TRMM ~ designed to measure rainfall ~ was a joint project of NASA and JAXA. NASA and JAXA had originally planned for the satellite's mission to last three years, but meteorologists and climate researchers, who continued to find the satellite's data highly valuable, particularly for analyzing tropical storms, had advocated to prolong the mission. (Guy Gugliotta, “Weather Satellite Gets Reprieve for Hurricane Season,” Washington Post, 8 August 2004.
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