Jason-1 launch images

Jason-3 Animation

Ionospheric Total Electron Content

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Ocean Dynamic Topography

The joint U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is the next in a line of Earth-observing satellites that will collect the most accurate data yet on sea level and how it changes over time. With ...

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

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

Jason-1 Line Drawing

This illustration shows the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft in orbit above Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.

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-3 Satellite Prepared For Launch

Radiometer Installation Team - April 2007

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

TOPEX/Poseidon Line Drawing

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-3 Lifts Off!

OSTM/Jason-2 DORIS

OSTM/Jason-2 LRA

Jason-1 LRA

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission to Planet Earth

TOPEX/Poseidon LRA

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 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.