Space agencies and EU team up for media briefing on Jason-3 satellite

Representatives from:

• the European Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW);
• EUMETSAT (the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites);
• the French space agency Centre national d'études spatiales(CNES);
• the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS);
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and
• US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

will give presentations and answer questions via Twitter (#askjason3).

Jason-3 will soon take over from Jason-2 as the reference mission for high-precision ocean altimetry, ensuring the crucially important record of sea level measurements – uninterrupted since 1992 – continues.

This mission provides data essential for weather forecasting and monitoring of climate change.

The European Commission funds European contributions to the satellite’s operations as part of the EU’s flagship Earth observation environmental programme, Copernicus.

Within Copernicus, Jason-3 will provide essential data for CMEMS and it is the reference mission for calibrating observations of sea surface height collected by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites.

DATE: MONDAY 19 SEPTEMBER, 2016

TIME: 16:00 CEST

ACCESS THE LIVE BRIEFING HERE.

Questions can be asked via Twitter at #askjason3.For more information, please contact Valerie Barthmann on [email protected] or +49 (0) 6151 807 7320 or Neil Fletcher on +49 (0) 171 3011 916.