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20.06.2019 14:22 Age: 5 yrs
[Jason-2] Happy birthday Jason-2
Category: News of the Jason-2 mission
Eleven years ago, on June 20, 2008, Jason-2 was successfully launched as a result of a collaboration between CNES, NASA, EUMETSAT and NOAA.
June 20, 2008. From the California base at Vandenberg, the Delta-2 rocket was launched to put the satellite into orbit. A few hours later, the payload instruments were on (the DORIS 1 precise orbit determination and positioning system at 18:45, the POSEIDON3-1 altimeter at 11:12, the AMR-H radiometer at 11:38, and the GPSPA at 11:40). Only two days later, the first near-real-time "OGDR" product was processed at CNES premises while NOAA and EUMETSAT began operational production in mid-July.
Today, after more than 60,000 orbits around the Earth, Jason-2 is still in service with excellent performance in measuring ocean surface heights and we hope it will continue.
The Jason-2 oceanography satellite was launched on June 20, 2008. For the past 11 years, it has been accurately measuring the surface topography of the oceans.
Further information:
- The mission <link internal-link>Jason-2
- <link internal-link>Mission performance
- <link internal-link>Jason-2 videos on altimetry applications
