Jason-3 on the Launch Pad

Sea Surface Height

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.

Jason-1 DORIS

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Bringing Satellite Data Down to Earth

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite secured inside its payload fairing, is rolled to Space Launch Complex 4

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

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Jason-1 Line Drawing

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

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

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.

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

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

Jason-1 Lithograph

Ocean Dynamic Topography

Wind Speed

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

Jason-1 Spacecraft Animation

TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

Jason-3

Variability of Ocean Dynamic Topography

Jason-1 atop the Delta II Photo: Tom Shain

In this illustration, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft - the world's latest sea-level satellite - orbits Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.

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