Jason-3 Ready for Launch

OSTM/Jason-2 GPSP

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

Jason-1 TRSR

Jason-3 Launch

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

TOPEX/Poseidon Altimeter

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Jason-1: LRA instrument

TOPEX/Poseidon launch

Radiometer Installation Team - April 2007

Spacecraft processing

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.

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

These photos were taken during the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) mating operation with Jason-1. (11/14/01) Photos: Scott Michel

TOPEX/Poseidon Line Drawing

Jason-1: JMR instrument

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

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-1 launch images

t - 12 minutes

Altimeter Applications - JPL Open House '99

OSTM/Jason-2 Spacecraft

Jason-1 Spacecraft Animation

OSTM/Jason-2 Line Drawing

OSTM/Jason-2 Artist's Concept