THE CEOS DATABASE : MISSION, INSTRUMENTS AND MEASUREMENTS

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - Sentinel-6 A Michael Freilich -

Full Name

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
aka Jason-CS A, Sentinel-6 A

Status

Operational (nominal)

Mission Agencies

EUMETSAT , COM , ESA , NASA , NOAA

Launch Date

21 Nov 2020

Mission Links

mission site | data access portal

EOL Date

Jun 2026

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

46984 (TLE)

International Designator

2020-086A

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

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 Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	GNSS POD Receiver
	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	AMR-C, GNSS-RO Receiver
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	GNSS POD Receiver, GNSS-RO Receiver
Gravity and Magnetic Fields	Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements	GNSS POD Receiver, LRA (Sentinel-6), Poseidon-4 Altimeter
Land	Landscape topography	Poseidon-4 Altimeter
Ocean	Ocean topography/currents	AMR-C, Poseidon-4 Altimeter
	Ocean surface winds	Poseidon-4 Altimeter
	Ocean wave height and spectrum	Poseidon-4 Altimeter

Mission Instruments

AMR-C - Advanced Microwave Radiometer for Climate

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

GNSS POD Receiver - Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Precise Orbit Determination (POD) Receiver

GNSS-RO Receiver - Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)- Radio Occultation (RO) Receiver

LRA (Sentinel-6) - Laser Retroreflector Array (Sentinel-6)

Poseidon-4 Altimeter - Poseidon-4 SAR Radar Altimeter

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