Jason-1 launch images

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

TOPEX/Poseidon Collecting Data

Experts from NASA, ESA, EUMETSAT, and NOAA discuss the upcoming launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich in a recorded live broadcast

OSTM/Jason-2 LRA

Jason-1 Poster

Jason-3 3D Model

Jason-1 Radiometer

NASA and its U.S. and international partners have teamed up to launch a new Earth-observing satellite called Sentinel-6B that will measure sea surface height of most of the planet’s ocean. These ob...

TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

t - 7 minutes - Photo: Tom Shain

In this illustration, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft - the world's latest sea-level satellite - orbits Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.

Jason-1 launch images

Jason-1 atop the Delta II Photo: Tom Shain

Jason-3 Ready for Launch

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 ...

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 launch images

Early morning at the launch pad

Jason-1: TRSR instrument

Jason-3 Lifts Off!

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

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

Jason-3

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

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