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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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