Launch and early orbit phase

Jason-3 : D-1 before the launch !

2016/01/16: 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] 

Jason-3 Launch Readiness Review successful

2016/01/16: 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.[more]

Jason-3 on top of the SpaceX Launcher.

2016/01/17: Falcon 9 is poised for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base with the Jason-3 ocean altimetry satellite aboard.[more]

Jason-3 mission on Nasa TV.

2016/01/17: During a Jan. 15 briefing on NASA Television, panelists gave an overview of the Jason-3 mission – scheduled to launch on Jan. 17 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Jason-3 is the newest in a series of satellites...[more]

Jason-3 launch timeline

2016/01/17: About 154 seconds after the Falcon-9 rocket lifts off, the main engine will cut off. About three seconds after that, the rocket's first stage will separate. Second-stage ignition will follow in about eight seconds. Half a minute...[more]

Two hours to go: everything is nominal

2016/01/17: Satellite, launcher and ground segment have all a nominal behavtor toward a launch of Jasno-3 in about 2 hours from now. [more]

Jason-3 launch : less than 1 hour remaining

2016/01/17: At Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to boost the Jason-3 spacecraft into orbit.[more] 

Ten minutes to go...

2016/01/17: All is going smoothly but with a deep fog. [more] 

Jason-3 in orbit 

2016/01/17: Flying from Vandenberg Air Force Base, the SpaceX Falcon9 rocket lifted off with the Jason-3 spacecraft at 18:42 UTC. The attempt to land the first stage on the ASDS in the Pacific Ocean was unsuccessful. [more]

Jason-3 Doris instrument switched on

2016/01/18: The DORIS instrument has been successfully switched ON today at 5:40 UTC. The instrument behavior is fully nominal and has started to compute the on-orbit solutions thanks to the DIODE software.[more]

Jason-3 mission successfully launched, Release Press from Cnes

2016/01/18: Jason-3 was successfully launched Sunday 17 January at 18:42 UTC from Vandenberg, California. The satellite is now under control of teams at CNES’s Toulouse Space Centre in charge of powering up the bus and payload. [more]

Jason-3 Doris instrument provides real-time ephemeris

The DIODE software onboard Jason-3 DORIS instrument provides real time ephemeris since yesterday around noon. The data quality was impacted by the satellite attitude law (so-called barbecue) but since today Jason-3 is using a... [<link en news front-page-news>more]

Jason-3 altimeter first calibrations

19.01.2016: The Poseidon-3 altimeter has provided its first calibrations data and everything is inline with specifications. [<link en news front-page-news>more]

Jason-3 Altimeter first waveforms

2016.01.19: The Jason-3 altimeter has provided its first waveforms and the analysis confirm the good behavior of the instrument. [<link en news front-page-news>more]

Jason-3 mission returns first data

2016.01.19: Jason-3 was successfully launched Sunday 17 January. All the instruments were rapidly switched on. The first real-time Jason-3 data product was generated and compared with Jason-2, less than three days after launch. [<link en news front-page-news>more]