Jason-1 launch images

Jason-3 on the Launch Pad

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

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

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 Satellite Prepared For Launch

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

Mike Davis in front of the faring

Wind Speed

Water Vapor

Early morning at the launch pad

Jason-1 launch images

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

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

Jason-1 TRSR

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

TOPEX/Poseidon launch

To provide scientists with essential information about global and regional changes in the seas, NASA will launch the Jason-3 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

QuickTime VR of TOPEX/Poseidon

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Launch footage

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...

A key ocean observation satellite has been named after Earth scientist Michael Freilich

Sea Surface Height

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

Jason-1 Line Drawing

Oceans' Role in Climate - Jason-1