Long-Running NASA/CNES Ocean Satellite Takes Final Bow

by Gary Kopycinski on July 3, 2013

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WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 3, 2013. The curtain has come down on a superstar of the satellite oceanography world that played the “Great Blue Way” of the world’s ocean for 11 1/2 years. The successful joint NASA and Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Jason-1 ocean altimetry satellite was decommissioned this week following the loss of its last remaining transmitter.