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Mike Davis in front of the faring

OSTM/Jason-2 Line Drawing

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

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

Jason-3 3D Model

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

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

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

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

Inside half of the Delta Clam shell faring

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

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 atop the Delta II Photo: Tom Shain

Radiometer Install - Jan. 2007

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

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

Jason-1: LRA instrument

TOPEX/Poseidon over Earth

Jason-1 launch images

TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

Altimeter Applications - JPL Open House '99

Jason-1 Lithograph

Watch the Jason-3 Mission Briefing from Friday, Jan 15, 2016 - panelists gave an overview of the Jason-3 mission.

Jason-3 Ready for Launch

OSTM/Jason-2 LRA