DATE: Friday, November 28, 1997 TAG: 9711280071
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
LENGTH: 17 lines
After a week's delay, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, along with Japan's National Space Development Agency, successfully launched the joint Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite from Tanegashima, Japan, Thursday at 4:27 EST.
The satellite, which includes a cloud-observation experiment developed by scientists at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, is designed to monitor tropical rainfall and the associated release of energy that effects global weather patterns - including the periodic weather anomaly known as El Nino.
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