THE CEOS DATABASE : MISSION, INSTRUMENTS AND MEASUREMENTS

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - OSTM (Jason-2) -

Full Name

Ocean Surface Topography Mission
aka Jason-2

Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

NASA , EUMETSAT , NOAA

Launch Date

20 Jun 2008

Mission Links

mission site | data access portal

EOL Date

10 Oct 2019

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

33105 (TLE)

International Designator

2008-032A

Orbit Type

Inclined, non-sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

111.8 minutes

Orbit Sense

N/A

Orbit Inclination

66.05 deg

Orbit Altitude

1309 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

Repeat Cycle

371 days

Objectives and Applications

3-year nominal mission life. Physical oceanography, geodesy/gravity, climate monitoring, marine meteorology. Long-Repeat Orbit geodetic mission phase from July 2016 to December 2019.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	AMR
Gravity and Magnetic Fields	Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements	GPSP, LRA, POSEIDON-3
Land	Landscape topography	POSEIDON-3
Ocean	Ocean topography/currents	AMR, GPSP, LRA, POSEIDON-3
	Ocean surface winds	POSEIDON-3
	Ocean wave height and spectrum	POSEIDON-3

Mission Instruments

AMR - Advanced Microwave Radiometer

DGXX - Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite-New Generation XX

GPSP - Global Positioning System Payload

LRA - Laser Retroreflector Array

POSEIDON-3 - Positioning Ocean Solid Earth Ice Dynamics Orbiting Navigator (Single frequency solid state radar altimeter)

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