Jason-1 launch images

TOPEX/Poseidon over Earth

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

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

OSTM/Jason-2 DORIS

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.

Jason-1 Lithograph

Radiometer Rework - April 2007

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

Jason-1 Launch - Artists Concept

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

QuickTime VR of TOPEX/Poseidon

Jason-1: TRSR instrument

The Falcon 9 protective payload fairing containing the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite

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.

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

Jason-3 Ready for Launch

OSTM/Jason-2 LRA

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

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...

Jason-1 on top of the DPAF

Watch the Jason-3 Science Briefing from Friday, Jan 15, 2016 - panelists discussed the science and research of the Jason-3 mission.

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

Jason-3

Jason-3 Animation

Jason-3 3D Model