Sentinel-6 B Mission

Identifiersentinel-6-bNamesSentinel-6 BAliasesjason-cs-bs6bsentinel-6b About identifiers
SeriesJasonjasonSeriesSentinel-6sentinel-6

Objectives and Applications

Sentinel-6 provides precision sea level, sea surface height, significant wave height, inland water heights and other products tailored to operational services in the ocean, climate, atmospheric and land Copernicus Services. It also provides enhanced continuity to the very stable time series of mean sea level measurements and ocean sea state after Jason-3.

Mission Summary

Full Name
Sentinel-6 B
aka Jason-CS B, S6B
Mission Status
Operational (nominal)
Mission Agencies
ESA, COM, EUMETSAT, NASA, NOAA
Launch Date
17 Nov 2025
Mission Links
mission site | data access portal
EOL Date
Nov 2033
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
112.4 minutes
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
66.05 deg
Orbit Altitude
1343 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
10 days
NORAD Catalog #
66514
International Designator
2025-264A

Mission Instruments

AMR-C - Advanced Microwave Radiometer for Climate sentinel-6-b_amr-c
DGXX-S - Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite (DORIS) - New Generation XX-S sentinel-6-b_dgxx-s
GNSS POD Receiver - Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Precise Orbit Determination (POD) Receiver sentinel-6-b_gnss-pod-receiver
GNSS-RO Receiver - Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)- Radio Occultation (RO) Receiver sentinel-6-b_gnss-ro-receiver
LRA (Sentinel-6) - Laser Retroreflector Array (Sentinel-6) sentinel-6-b_lra-sentinel-6
Poseidon-4 Altimeter - Poseidon-4 SAR Radar Altimeter sentinel-6-b_poseidon-4-altimeter

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAerosols GNSS POD Receiver
Atmospheric Humidity Fields AMR-C, GNSS-RO Receiver
Atmospheric Temperature Fields GNSS POD Receiver, GNSS-RO Receiver
Gravity and Magnetic FieldsGravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements DGXX-S, GNSS POD Receiver, LRA (Sentinel-6), Poseidon-4 Altimeter
LandLandscape topography Poseidon-4 Altimeter
OceanOcean topography/currents AMR-C, DGXX-S, Poseidon-4 Altimeter
Ocean surface winds Poseidon-4 Altimeter
Ocean wave height and spectrum Poseidon-4 Altimeter

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