Jason-1 Launch - Artists Concept

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Wave Height

Jason-1: JMR instrument

OSTM/Jason-2 Line Drawing

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission to Planet Earth

Oceans' Role in Climate - Jason-1

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

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

Radiometer Install - April 2007

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying the Jason-3 spacecraft. Liftoff was at 10:42 a.m. PST (1:42 p.m. EST).

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.

Mike Davis in front of the faring

TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

OSTM/Jason-2 Artist's Concept

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

Jason-1 Spacecraft Animation

Jason-1 Lithograph

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

Ocean Dynamic Topography

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

Jason-1 launch images

Jason-3

TOPEX/Poseidon Collecting Data

Jason-1: LRA instrument

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