Jason-1: LRA instrument

Headed for Orbit!

Jason-1 launch images

These photos were taken during the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) mating operation with Jason-1. (11/14/01) Photos: Scott Michel

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Nov. 21, 2020, at 9:17 a.m. PST

Mike Davis in front of the faring

Jason-1 in full flight configuration

OSTM/Jason-2 DORIS

Radiometer Install - Jan. 2007

Radiometer Install - April 2007

Inside half of the Delta Clam shell faring

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

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-1: JMR instrument

QuickTime VR of TOPEX/Poseidon

Jason-3 on the Launch Pad

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

This artist's concept show Jason-3 over France.

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

These photos were taken during the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) mating operation with Jason-1. (11/14/01) Photos: Scott Michel

Jason-1 atop the Delta II Photo: Tom Shain

Jason-1 on top of the DPAF

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

TOPEX/Poseidon Artist's Concept

TOPEX/Poseidon over Earth