Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Mission Details
Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich
Sentinel-6A aims to continue high-precision ocean altimetry measurements in the 2020–2030 time-frame using two successive, identical satellites, Jason-CS-A and Jason-CS-B.
A secondary objective of Sentinel-6 is to collect high-resolution vertical profiles of temperature, using the GNSS Radio-Occultation sounding technique, to assess temperature changes in the troposphere and stratosphere and to support Numerical Weather Prediction.
Payloads: 1
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Location
SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA
Stats
2020
95th orbital launch attempt
SpaceX
108th mission
22nd mission of 2020
102nd successful mission
74th consecutive successful mission
Falcon 9
100th mission
22nd mission of 2020
97th successful mission
71st consecutive successful mission