The Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), Jason-2 mission was launched
from Vandenburg AFB on June 20, 2008. It is a joint mission with NASA,
CNES (the French space agency), NOAA, and EUMETSAT. The prime payloads
are an ocean radar altimeter, an Advanced Microwave Radiometer, a precision
GPS receiver, a Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA), and a Doppler Orbitography
Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite (DORIS) receiver. Jason-2 was
launched into the same 9.91 day repeat orbit at 1336 km altitude used
by its predecessors, Jason-1 and TOPEX/Poseidon. Its objective was to
continue the synoptic mapping of ocean surface topography started in
1992 by TOPEX/Poseidon.
The Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), Jason-2 mission was launched
from Vandenburg AFB on June 20, 2008. It is a joint mission with NASA,
CNES (the French space agency), NOAA, and EUMETSAT. The prime payloads
are an ocean radar altimeter, an Advanced Microwave Radiometer, a precision
GPS receiver, a Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA), and a Doppler Orbitography
Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite (DORIS) receiver. Jason-2 was
launched into the same 9.91 day repeat orbit at 1336 km altitude used
by its predecessors, Jason-1 and TOPEX/Poseidon. Its objective was to
continue the synoptic mapping of ocean surface topography started in
1992 by TOPEX/Poseidon.
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