Jason-3

TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

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

Jason-3 Satellite Prepared For Launch

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

This is an artist's concept of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft.

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

Jason-1 Lithograph

Jason-3 Launch

Inside half of the Delta Clam shell faring

Applications of Spaceborne Altimetry

The ocean-observing Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 21, 2020 at 12:17 p.m. EST

Jason-3

TOPEX/Poseidon Radiometer

Jason-1 LRA

Jason-3 3D Model

Bringing Satellite Data Down to Earth

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 ...

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 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

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

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Wave Height

Jason-1 on top of the DPAF

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Jason-3 Animation