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17.01.2016 Jason-3 on top of the SpaceX launcher.
Falcon 9 is poised for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base with the Jason-3 ocean altimetry satellite aboard. [more]
16.01.2016 Jason-3 Launch Readiness Review successful!
Launch Readiness Review has been successfully held on Jan 15th in Vandenberg. The operations continue toward a launch in just less than 24 hours. Falcon9 was nominally rolled to the launch pad on Jan 15th (PST time), and has been...[more]
16.01.2016 Jason-3: D-1 before the launch !
All activities are going smoothly, the Launch Readiness Review will be performed today in Vandenberg. We are now about less than 30 hours before the Jason-3 lift-off. [more]
15.01.2016 DORIS the space surveyor serving the ITRF
The DORIS system (Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite), conceived and developed by CNES, France’s national mapping, survey and forestry agency IGN and the French space geodesy research centre GRGS,...[more]
15.01.2016 4-15 january 2015 week
Les manchots antarctiques face au changement climatique (L’Actu, 2016/01/18)Réchauffement climatique : gros coup de chaud sur le pôle Nord (Sud Ouest, 2016/01/07)La 1ère tempête causée par El Niño touche la Californie (La tribune...[more]
13.01.2016 Jason-3: D-4 before the launch !
The Jason-3 launch is currently scheduled on Sunday, January 17 at 18:42:18 UTC from Vandenberg Airforce Base in California (USA).[more]
11.01.2016 Pollutants
"Altimetry applications in videos" produced by Cnes on the occasion of the Jason-3 launch, traces the many fileds where this technique is involved: here, Pollutants.
