Jason-1: JMR instrument

The Falcon 9 protective payload fairing containing the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite

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

The 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 Animation

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. 

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.

OSTM/Jason-2 Line Drawing

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

Applications of Spaceborne Altimetry

Ariane 42P launch vehicle

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Jason-1: TRSR instrument

Jason-1 on top of the DPAF

Mike Davis in front of the faring

Jason-3

Jason-1 atop the Delta II Photo: Tom Shain

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

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

TOPEX/Poseidon GPS

OSTM/Jason-2 LRA

Jason-1 launch images

TOPEX/Poseidon Collecting Data

Wind Speed

Ocean Dynamic Topography

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