Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. said it was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration‘s (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to build the Global Precipitation Measurement-Microwave Imager (GMI) in support of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The mission is a joint effort with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other partners to build a constellation of spacecraft to improve climate and weather predictions through more accurate and frequent precipitation measurements. NASA will manage the mission. GMI will be integrated onto the GPM core spacecraft together with JAXA’s dual-frequency Precipitation Radar. When operational, they will make radiometric and radar measurements of precipitation. Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.