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NASA and Japan's space agency Jaxa are readying a satellite for a late-February launch, to give the world a high-precision global rainfall and snowfall observatory. If all goes well, GPM, the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory, will be hoisted on 27 February on a Jaxa H-IIA rocket from Japan's Tanegashima Space …

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  1. Alex in Tokyo
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    Nitpick

    JAXA is an acronym (for Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency); could you give it all caps?

    I know, I know, no one likes a nitpicker.

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