Jason-3 Ready for Launch

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

Applications of Spaceborne Altimetry

Jason-1 launch images

Jason-3 Animation

TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

Jason-1 LRA

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

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

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission to Planet Earth

TOPEX/Poseidon launch

Recorded live broadcast of Sentinel-6B, launched at 9:21 p.m. PST, Sunday, Nov. 16 (12:21 a.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 17) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Watch the Jason-3 Science Briefing from Friday, Jan 15, 2016 - panelists discussed the science and research of the Jason-3 mission.

TOPEX/Poseidon Collecting Data

Jason-3 3D Model

TOPEX/Poseidon LRA

OSTM/Jason-2 LRA

Jason-3

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

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

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

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 ...

OSTM/Jason-2 Spacecraft

Oceans' Role in Climate - Jason-1

TOPEX/Poseidon Radiometer

Early morning at the launch pad