Jason-1 launch images

t - 7 minutes - Photo: Tom Shain

Wave Height

OSTM/Jason-2 Artist's Concept

Poseidon-3 Altimeter

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

Jason-1 launch images

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

OSTM/Jason-2 Spacecraft

Mike Davis in front of the faring

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

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

Headed for Orbit!

TOPEX/Poseidon LRA

Ionospheric Total Electron Content

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

Recorded live broadcast of Sentinel-6B, launched at 9:21 p.m. PST, Sunday, Nov. 16 (12:21 a.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 17) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Applications of Spaceborne Altimetry

Whale Census and Habitat

Jason-1: TRSR instrument

Experts from NASA, ESA, EUMETSAT, and NOAA discuss the upcoming launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich in a recorded live broadcast

Jason-1 Launch - Artists Concept

Jason-1 Spacecraft Animation

Jason-1 launch images

For NASA scientist Severine Fournier, studying our planet knows no borders.