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Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite's science instrument payload sits in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly.
This illustration depicts the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite with solar arrays fully deployed.
This illustration shows the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite in orbit with its solar panels and KaRIn instrument antennas deployed.
On June 27, 2021, teams from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the March Air Reserve Base, loaded the scientific heart of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission into a C-17 airplane.
On June 27, 2021, teams from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the March Air Reserve Base, loaded the scientific heart of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission into a C-17 airplane.
Some of the people who helped to load the hardware for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite's research instruments onto a C-17 airplane pose for a picture. The payload left March Air Reserve Base on June 27 and is headed to France.
SWOT's solar panels unfold as part of a test in January at a Thales Alenia Space facility in Cannes, France, where the satellite is being assembled. SWOT will measure elevations of Earth's ocean and surface water.
Workers in a clean room in Cannes, France, load the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite into a container in preparation for shipping the spacecraft to the U.S.
The mighty Yukon River and nearby lakes appear in red in this image produced using data recorded on June 18, 2023, by the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite as it passed over Alaska.
Teams from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the March Air Reserve Base loaded the scientific payload for the SWOT Earth-observing satellite into a C-17 airplane on June 27. The hardware is headed to a clean room facility near Cannes, France.
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