Aug 2002
I've put some of the source material for the animation on it's own page.
This gzipped tar file contains a Satellite Toolkit scenario with the constellation members.
Sept 20 - I've made rendered images of the first draft satellite models.
Sept 30 - The first draft of the movie is done.
Oct 1 - The second draft of the movie has a longer lead in and out, fixed satellite orientations and titles.
Oct 10 - The third draft of the movie has spinning radiometers, an ADEOS/GCOM radiometer dish and cross hatching to show coverage.
Oct 11 - The fourth draft of the movie has fixed spinning radiometers, an AMSR on the ADEOS/GCOM model instead of a generic dish and ocean texture fixed to not have line at 180 degrees.
Feb 23, 2003 - A new version of the GPM animation showing the swaths is available.
May 23, 2003 - A final? version of 3 hours of swaths for the GPM constellation.
Oct 1, 2003 - The subtitled version of the movie that plays on the plasma screens is also available as quicktime and avi movies.