Sentinel-6B
The mission
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.
Mission timeline
Where it leaves Earth
Launch site
Ground vector
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Latitude
- 34.632°N
- Longitude
- 120.611°W
Can I see this?
Distance and a plain visibility call from a place you choose. Trajectory is not modeled — night launches travel farther across the sky than daylight ones.
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Range weather
Launch commit criteria
Clear — no formal weather rule concerns published.
- Primary concern
- None published
- Rule count
- 0
- Temperature
- Not reported
- Surface wind
- Not reported
05:12 AM UTC – 05:32 AM UTC
Vehicle & provider
Schedule history
No meaningful launch-time or status changes recorded.