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RE: Jason-1 oceanography satellite

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Anniversary of the Jason/TIMED Launch in 2001

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NASA's Jason-1 Achieves a One-Decade Landmark

On Dec. 7, 2001, NASA and the French Space Agency Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) launched the Jason-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., embarking on a planned three-to-five-year mission to study Earth's ocean from space. Today, Jason-1 celebrates 10 years of precisely measuring ocean surface topography. The mission continues to reveal new insights into the ocean's complicated circulation patterns, while providing a critical measure of climate change by contributing to a nearly 20-year record of global sea level monitoring from space.
Jason-1 is the successful follow-on mission to the NASA/French Space Agency's pioneering Topex/Poseidon mission, which revolutionized our understanding of the dynamics of ocean circulation and global climate from 1992 to 2006. In 2008, the meteorological agencies of the United States and Europe collaborated with NASA and CNES to launch the Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 satellite to build upon this unprecedented long-term record of consistent, continuous global observations of Earth's ocean.
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Anniversary of the Jason/TIMED Launch in 2001

Jason-1/TIMED Launch on Delta II

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Jason-1 is a satellite oceanography mission to monitor global ocean circulation, study the ties between the ocean and the atmosphere, improve global climate forecasts and predictions, and monitor events such as El Niño and ocean eddies.
Jason-1 was launched on December 7, 2001 from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. aboard a Boeing Delta II. During the first months Jason-1 shared an almost identical orbit to TOPEX/Poseidon, which allowed for cross calibration.

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