Jason-1 Artists Concept

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

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

Inside half of the Delta Clam shell faring

Jason-1 on top of the DPAF

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 launch images

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 Launch

Radiometer Installation Team - April 2007

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 ...

Jason-1: First Image

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.

Altimeter Applications - JPL Open House '99

Jason-3 Ready for Launch

Altimeter Mission Series

Jason-3 Satellite Prepared For Launch

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Jason-1 Radiometer

TOPEX/Poseidon DORIS

TOPEX/Poseidon Collecting Data

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

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.

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Mike Davis in front of the faring

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna