"Nick" wrote in message
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"The US and Japanese space agencies (Nasa and Jaxa) are to launch a
satellite network
to measure rainfall around the world.

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) project will provide
three-hourly reports
on rainfall.

It aims to improve weather forecasting and understanding of how the global
water
cycle affects climatic change.

Details of the $1.1bn (£636m) project, due to begin in 2011, were
presented at a
conference in Vienna, Austria."

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4872606.stm
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Nick in Northallerton
Also @ www.whelan.me.uk
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£636m???? I'll happily save then some cash and send in my rainfall figures,
for a small reward. A few thousand will do.

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David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.