Jason-3 on the Launch Pad

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

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

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

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

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 Ground Tracks

Poseidon-3 Altimeter

Early morning at the launch pad

TOPEX/Poseidon Artist's Concept

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.

Radiometer Install - Jan. 2007

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

These photos were taken during the Dual Payload Attach Fitting (DPAF) mating operation with Jason-1. (11/13/01) Photos: Scott Michel

TOPEX/Poseidon Poster (no text)

Jason-1 Launch - Artists Concept

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.

TOPEX/Poseidon GPS

Jason-1 TRSR

Ionospheric Total Electron Content

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

TOPEX/Poseidon over Earth

Jason-1 DORIS

t - 7 minutes - Photo: Tom Shain

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich