OSTM/Jason-2 Artist's Concept

Jason-1 launch images

Ionospheric Total Electron Content

Jason-1: JMR instrument

These photos were taken during the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) mating operation with Jason-1. (11/14/01) Photos: Scott Michel

Jason-1 Launch Configuration

These photos were taken during the Dual Payload Attach Fitting (DPAF) mating operation with Jason-1. (11/13/01) Photos: Scott Michel

TOPEX/Poseidon Collecting Data

Jason-3

TOPEX/Poseidon Altimeter

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission to Planet Earth

OSTM/Jason-2 Artist's Concept

Jason-1 DORIS

TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

Jason-3 Launch

OSTM/Jason-2 Spacecraft

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite secured inside its payload fairing, is rolled to Space Launch Complex 4

Our planet is changing. Our ocean is rising. And it affects us all. That’s why a new international satellite will continue the decades-long watch over our global ocean and help us better understand...

Altimeter Mission Series

Jason-3 Lifts Off!

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

Jason-3 3D Model

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

The Antonov cargo aircraft carrying the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite touches down on the runway at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sept. 24, 2020.

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will join a long-standing family of Earth observing satellites from NASA and European partners.