TOPEX/Poseidon Altimeter

Jason-1: TRSR instrument

Wind Speed

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

TOPEX/Poseidon Radiometer

Sea Level

Water Vapor

TOPEX/Poseidon LRA

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

OSTM/Jason-2 DORIS

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

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

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

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

t - 7 minutes - Photo: Tom Shain

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

Radiometer Installation Team - April 2007

OSTM/Jason-2 Line Drawing

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

Ionospheric Total Electron Content

t - 12 minutes

Jason-1 in full flight configuration

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite sits in front of a testing chamber where mission team members tested whether the spacecraft could endure the loud sounds it will encounter during launch.

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

Mission team members perform acoustic tests of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite in a chamber outfitted with giant speakers that blast the spacecraft with sound. This is to ensure that the ...

Jason-1 LRA