OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

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. 

Jason-1 launch images

TOPEX/Poseidon GPS

Jason-1 TRSR

TOPEX/Poseidon LRA

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission to Planet Earth

Jason-1 readies for launch in its bay at Vandenberg, AFB (10/31/01)

Launching aboard the joint U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is NASA’s next instrument that will help improve weather forecasting.

Headed for Orbit!

Altimeter Applications - JPL Open House '99

TOPEX/Poseidon DORIS

Jason-1 Launch Configuration

Radiometer Rework - April 2007

OSTM/Jason-2 Artist's Concept

In this illustration, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft - the world's latest sea-level satellite - orbits Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.

Wave Height

TOPEX/Poseidon Collecting Data

Jason-1 launch images

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

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

Sea Level

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

OSTM/Jason-2 Line Drawing