flown missionSuccess
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sentinel-6B
SpaceXSpace Launch Complex 4E — Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Sentinel-6B
- Type
- Earth Science
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
- Weather probability
- 90% go
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich (launched November 2020) and Sentinel-6B make up the Sentinel-6 mission, also known as Jason Continuity of Service (Jason-CS), which is a partnership between NASA, NOAA, ESA, and EUMETSAT. This mission continues the long-term global sea surface height data record begun by first Jason satellites in 1992.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Family
- Falcon
- Variant
- Block 5
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
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launch site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 4E
- Location
- Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
- Coordinates
- 34.6320, -120.6110