TWO YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS ORBITAL OPERATIONS STATUS OF THE DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADAR ON THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT CORE SPACECRAFT

The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) installed on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) core satellite was developed by JAXA and NICT. This paper describes mission objectives, technical performance, resource allocation, ground test results, orbital check out results and orbital operation status of the DPR. The DPR system PFT has completed in February 2012. GPM core spacecraft satellite system test has completed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 2013. GPM core observatory was shipped to JAXA Tanegashima Space Center, JAPAN and GPM core observatory was successfully launched by H-IIA launch vehicle on Feb 28, 2014. DPR orbital check out was completed in May 2014. DPR products released to the public on Sep. 2, 2014 and Normal Observation Operation period was started. The orbital operations status of DPR is reported in this paper.