Jason-1 launch images

TOPEX/Poseidon Line Drawing

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

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Ocean Dynamic Topography

Jason-1 Line Drawing

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. 

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

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission to Planet Earth

OSTM/Jason-2 Spacecraft

Whale Census and Habitat

Jason-1 TRSR

TOPEX/Poseidon Collecting Data

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.

Jason-1: LRA instrument

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

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

This artist's concept show Jason-3 over the Amazon.

OSTM/Jason-2 LRA

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

Jason-3 Satellite Prepared For Launch

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

Radiometer Installation Team - April 2007

Radiometer Install - April 2007

Headed for Orbit!

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