OSTM/Jason-2 Spacecraft

Launch preparations are progressing! (11/21/01) Photos: Stacy Mitchell of John Hopkins APL/TIMED project

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Jason-3 on the Launch Pad

TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

Jason-1 TRSR

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Nov. 21, 2020, at 9:17 a.m. PST

Jason-3 Lifts Off!

Applications of Spaceborne Altimetry

Ocean Dynamic Topography

This is an artist's concept of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft.

TOPEX/Poseidon Altimeter

This artist's concept show Jason-3 over France.

Jason-1: TRSR instrument

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

Jason-1 Spacecraft Animation

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

Jason-3 Launch

Sea Surface Height

Jason-1 Lithograph

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying the Jason-3 spacecraft. Liftoff was at 10:42 a.m. PST (1:42 p.m. EST).

TOPEX/Poseidon LRA

OSTM/Jason-2 Artist's Concept

Mike Davis in front of the faring

TOPEX/Poseidon Radiometer

Jason-1 on top of the DPAF