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

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...

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Wind Speed

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

Jason-3 Animation

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

Jason-1 Line Drawing

Poseidon-3 Altimeter

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Ionospheric Total Electron Content

Oceans' Role in Climate - Jason-1

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

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

Recorded live broadcast of Sentinel-6B, launched at 9:21 p.m. PST, Sunday, Nov. 16 (12:21 a.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 17) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

Ocean Dynamic Topography

Jason-3 Launch

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

Jason-1 Poster

TOPEX/Poseidon DORIS

For NASA scientist Severine Fournier, studying our planet knows no borders.

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