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The project main steps
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| JASON-3 is the follow-on to JASON-2, whose main features it has inherited (orbit, instruments, measurement accuracy, etc). JASON-3 is the result of close international cooperation between EUMETSAT, NOAA, CNES and NASA/JPL, industry and data users working to accomplish a benchmark mission in terms of data quality and science and economic return. |
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The four partners Eumetsat, Noaa, Nasa and Cnes have planned a launch of JASON-3 in April 2014. A maximum of recurrence with JASON-2 is expected to minimize cost and risk
Onboard the JASON-3 satellite, which uses a PROTEUS platform, the payload is composed of a Poseidon-3B radar altimeter supplied by CNES, an Advanced Microwave Radiometer (AMR) supplied by NASA/JPL, and a triple system for precise orbit determination: the DORIS instrument (CNES), GPS receiver and a Laser Retroflector Array (LRA) (NASA). Two (instead of three for JASON-2) further onboard instruments (LPT, CARMEN-3) will also be included.
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Latest Update 02/08/2011
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