Jason-1 Launch - Artists Concept

t - 7 minutes - Photo: Tom Shain

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. 

Jason-3 Satellite Prepared For Launch

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

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

Jason-1: First Image

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 Lithograph

QuickTime VR of TOPEX/Poseidon

Ocean Dynamic Topography

Jason-3 Animation

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 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.

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Launch footage

Jason-3

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

Jason-1: TRSR instrument

OSTM/Jason-2 Artist's Concept

Early morning at the launch pad

Jason-1 in full flight configuration

Radiometer Install - April 2007

This illustration shows the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft in orbit above Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.

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.