Jason-1 launch images

Jason-1 Poster

Radiometer Rework - April 2007

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission to Planet Earth

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

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

Jason-1 on top of the DPAF

Jason-3 3D Model

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...

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

Ocean Dynamic Topography

Wave Height

Jason-3 Lifts Off!

Jason-3 Animation

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

QuickTime VR of TOPEX/Poseidon

TOPEX/Poseidon Line Drawing

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is lifted to vertical at Space Launch Complex 4

Altimeter Applications - JPL Open House '99

OSTM/Jason-2 LRA

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite sits in front of a testing chamber where mission team members tested whether the spacecraft could endure the loud sounds it will encounter during launch.

These photos were taken during the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) mating operation with Jason-1. (11/14/01) Photos: Scott Michel

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite secured inside its payload fairing, is rolled to Space Launch Complex 4

The ocean-observing Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 21, 2020 at 12:17 p.m. EST

Jason-1 launch images

TOPEX/Poseidon Poster (no text)