The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), is expected to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in central California on Dec. 15, 2022, at 3:46 a.m. PT / 6:46 a.m. ET.
Join experts from NASA, CNES, SpaceX, and the U.S. Space Force to discuss the prelaunch status of the mission.
Participants:
Karen St. Germain, Earth Science Division director, NASA
Thierry Lafon, SWOT project manager, CNES
Tim Dunn, launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program
Julianna Scheiman, civil satellite missions director, SpaceX
Parag Vaze, SWOT project manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Capt. Zack Zounes, launch weather officer, U.S. Space Force
For more information on the SWOT mission, visit https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov/ or follow #TrackingWorldWater on social media.
SWOT is a collaboration between NASA and CNES, with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency and the UK Space Agency.
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Let’s simply take a second to salute how much hours and passion was put into these video.. 😄
Props to the fantastic work of JPL! Godspeed!
Congratulations to all the technicians and scientists who work on such a wonderful SWOT mission, hugs!
Work on a project for 20 years and then stick it on top of a rocket… no reason to be nervous 🙂
Why don't see actual pictures of real satellites anymore?
FIRSTLY let's salute SpaceX for providing the Falcon-9 rocket together with the.SpaceX launch service – no earlier than 11pm UTC 16th.
And a later on 16th SpaceX will launch TWO MORE Falcon 9 Rockets from launch pad 40 and launch padv39A just 3km and 18 minutes apart at 21.21 and 21.39 on 16th December.
THREE launches in less than 24 hours.
Almost 60 successful lanches in 2022 – with ALL boosters successfully landed and reused and almost ALL fairings successfully caught and reused.
Compare this with NASA's negligible number of succes5sful launches and ZERO attempts to save and reuse any OF the taxpayer's hard earned taxi's components.
Very good program of NASA to launch " SWOT " satellite. It will help to know the water on the earth and ocean.