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17.01.2026 06:18 Age: 13 days

Jason-3, 10 years in orbit!

Category: News of the Jason-3 mission

The Jason-3 satellite was launched 10 years ago, on January 16th, 2016.

The Jason-3 satellite was launched 10 years ago from Vandenberg Air Force base, taking over Jason-2, in flight since 2008.

Since then, it has been replaced by Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, and very recently Sentinel-6B (still in calibration phase), thus continuing the uninterrupted series of measurements which began with Topex/Poseidon.
The satellite is still functioning very well, but since the summer of 2025 it has been in a slightly different orbit (shifted by 2 km), enabling "geodetic" measurements. 

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