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I've been at Goddard approximately 11 years. I've been on GPM for about 3 to 4 years. I

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lead the quality assurance and the safety assurance team, on GPM primarily for the instruments but

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I also have the role of that as well at the

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launch site. When I first came on the project I was working with Ball Aerospace on getting the GMI assembled and

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shipped over here to Goddard. We went to a manufacturer to get the main reflector coded. We saw their were stripes

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along the face of the main reflector so we had to go

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not only go back, and resurface it, but we actually had to remove

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that old surface to put on and prep it for a new surface.

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When it finally came out, and we finally saw it we were like "wow!" It was a pristine coding, exactly

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how we've seen it in the past in other projects on other dishes. And we were just ecstatic.

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(rain drops)