OSTM/Jason-2 Artist's Concept

Jason-1 Line Drawing

Sea Surface Height

This artist's concept show Jason-3 over the Amazon.

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.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is lifted to vertical at Space Launch Complex 4

Ocean Dynamic Topography

Jason-1 Artists Concept

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. 

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.

OSTM/Jason-2 Line Drawing

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

TOPEX/Poseidon over Earth

OSTM/Jason-2 Spacecraft

Jason-1: TRSR instrument

TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite sits in front of a testing chamber where mission team members tested whether the spacecraft could endure the loud sounds it will encounter during launch.

Mike Davis in front of the faring

TOPEX/Poseidon Altimeter

Radiometer Install - Jan. 2007

Jason-1 Launch - Artists Concept

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission to Planet Earth

For NASA JPL engineer Parag Vaze, studying Earth’s rising ocean has been a career three decades in the making.

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Launch footage