Jason-3
COSPAR ID | 2016-002A | ||||||||||||||||
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SATCAT no. | 41240 | ||||||||||||||||
Website | https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/jason-3 | ||||||||||||||||
Mission duration | 5 years (planned) 8 years, 3 months and 8 days (elapsed) | ||||||||||||||||
Spacecraft properties | |||||||||||||||||
Bus | Proteus | ||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer | Thales Alenia Space | ||||||||||||||||
Launch mass | 553 kg (1,219 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Dry mass | 525 kg (1,157 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Power | 550 watts | ||||||||||||||||
Start of mission | |||||||||||||||||
Launch date | 17 January 2016, 18:42:18 Vandenberg, SLC-4E | ||||||||||||||||
Contractor | SpaceX | ||||||||||||||||
Orbital parameters | |||||||||||||||||
Reference system | Geocentric orbit[3] | ||||||||||||||||
Regime | Low Earth orbit | ||||||||||||||||
Perigee altitude | 1,331.7 km (827.5 mi) | ||||||||||||||||
Apogee altitude | 1,343.7 km (834.9 mi) | ||||||||||||||||
Inclination | 66.04° | ||||||||||||||||
Period | 112.42 minutes | ||||||||||||||||
Repeat interval | 9.92 days | ||||||||||||||||
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Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich → |
Jason-3 is a
Mission objectives
Jason-3 makes precise measurements related to global
Scientific applications
The primary users of Jason-3 data are people who are dependent on marine and weather forecasts for public safety, commerce and environmental purposes. Other users include scientists and people who are concerned with global warming and its relation to the ocean.
Orbit
Jason-3 flies at the same 9.9-day repeat track orbit and this means the satellite will make observations over the same ocean point every 9.9 days. The orbital parameters are: 66.05º inclination, 1,380 km apogee, 1,328 km perigee, 112 minutes per revolution around Earth. It was set to fly 1 minute behind the now decommissioned Jason-2. The 1-minute time delay was applied in order to not miss any data collection between missions.
Orbit determination instruments
In order to detect sea level change, we need to know the orbit height of the satellites as they revolve around Earth, to within 1 cm (0.4 inches). Combining instruments from three different techniques—
Launch
Appearing on the SpaceX manifest as early as July 2013,[14] Jason-3 was originally scheduled for launch on 22 July 2015. However, this date was pushed back to 19 August 2015 following the discovery of contamination in one of the satellite's thrusters, requiring the thruster to be replaced and further inspected.[15][16] The launch was further delayed by several months due to the loss of a Falcon 9 rocket with the CRS-7 mission on 28 June 2015.[17]
After SpaceX conducted their
A 7-second
Post-mission landing test
Following paperwork filed with US regulatory authorities in 2015,[22] SpaceX confirmed in January 2016 that they would attempt a controlled-descent flight test and vertical landing of the rocket's first stage on their west-coast floating platform Just Read the Instructions,[23] located about 200 mi (320 km) out in the Pacific Ocean.
This attempt followed the first successful landing and booster recovery on the
Approximately nine minutes into the flight, the live video feed from the drone ship went down due to the losing its lock on the uplink satellite. Elon Musk later reported that the first stage did touch down smoothly on the ship, but a lockout on one of the four landing legs failed to latch, so that the booster fell over and was destroyed.[27][28][29]
Debris from the fire, including several rocket engines attached to the
See also
- French space program
- TOPEX/Poseidon
- Jason-1
- OSTM/Jason-2
- Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich (Jason-CS A)
- List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
References
- ^ a b "Satellite: JASON-3". World Meteorological Organization. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ^ "Jason-3 Ocean-Monitoring Satellite healthy after smooth ride atop Falcon 9 Rocket". Spaceflight 101. 17 January 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ^ "Jason 3". Heavens Above. 16 July 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ^ a b "Jason-3 Satellite - Mission". nesdis.noaa.gov. Retrieved 8 March 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b c "Jason-3 Satellite - Mission". nesdis.noaa.gov. Retrieved 1 March 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b "Jason-3". jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 26 February 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Jason-3 - Satellite Missions". directory.eoportal.org. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "Jason-3 Design — EUMETSAT". eumetsat.int. Archived from the original on 1 March 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "Jason-3 Satellite". nesdis.noaa.gov. 20 September 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Jason-3 Satellite". nesdis.noaa.gov. 20 September 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "DORIS: Aviso+". aviso.altimetry.fr. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ "Doppler effect | Definition, Example, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ "LRA - Laser Retroreflector Array". sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 5 March 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Launch Manifest – Future Missions". SpaceX. Archived from the original on 31 July 2013.
- ^ a b Rhian, Jason (3 June 2015). "Thruster contamination on NOAA's Jason-3 satellite forces delay". Spaceflight Insider. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ^ Clark, Stephen (18 June 2015). "Jason 3 satellite shipped to Vandenberg for SpaceX launch". Spaceflight Now.
- ^ "CRS-7 Investigation Update". SpaceX. 20 July 2015. Archived from the original on 26 March 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
Our investigation is ongoing until we exonerate all other aspects of the vehicle, but at this time, we expect to return to flight this fall and fly all the customers we intended to fly in 2015 by end of year.
- ^ a b Bergin, Chris (7 September 2015). "SpaceX conducts additional Falcon 9 improvements ahead of busy schedule". NASASpaceflight.com. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- ^ Gebhardt, Chris (8 January 2016). "SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 conducts static fire test ahead of Jason-3 mission". NASASpaceflight.com. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ Curie, Mike (11 January 2016). "SpaceX Falcon 9 Static Fire Complete for Jason-3". NASA. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
At Space Launch Complex 4 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the static test fire of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for the upcoming Jason-3 launch was completed Monday at 5:35 p.m. PST, 8:35 p.m. EST. The first stage engines fired for the planned full duration of 7 seconds.
- ^ Jason-3 Hosted Webcast. youtube.com. SpaceX. 17 January 2016. Event occurs at 1:37:08 (55:58 after lift-off). Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ^ "Application for Special Temporary Authority". Federal Communications Commission. 28 December 2015. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Coldewey, Devin (7 January 2016). "SpaceX Plans Drone Ship Rocket Landing for 17 January Launch". NBC News. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ "Press Kit: ORBCOMM-2 Mission" (PDF). SpaceX. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
This mission also marks SpaceX's return-to-flight as well as its first attempt to land a first stage on land. The landing of the first stage is a secondary test objective.
- ^ Gebhardt, Chris (31 December 2015). "Year In Review, Part 4: SpaceX and Orbital ATK recover and succeed in 2015". NASASpaceflight.com. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ^ "SpaceX wants to land next booster at Cape Canaveral". Florida Today. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ Jason-3 Hosted Webcast. youtube.com. SpaceX. 17 January 2016. Event occurs at 1:06:30 (25:20 after lift-off). Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ^ Boyle, Alan (17 January 2016). "SpaceX rocket launches satellite, but tips over during sea landing attempt". GeekWire. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ^ Musk, Elon (17 January 2016). "Flight 21 landing and breaking a leg". Instagram.
- ^ "SpaceX rocket wreckage back on shore after near-miss at landing". Spaceflight Now. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
External links
About the satellite
- Jason-3 website by NASA JPL
- Jason-3 website by NASA JPL's Ocean Surface Topography program
- Jason-3 website by NOAA
- Jason-3 website Archived 4 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine by CNES
- Jason-3 website by EUMETSAT
- Jason-3 website by ESA's eoPortal
About the flight
- Jason-3 press kit by SpaceX