NASA Launches New Satellite to Map Rising Seas

The U.S.-European Jason-2 ocean altimetry satellite was launched successfully June 20 aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on a five-year mission to continue the uninterrupted study of ocean levels and currents that was begun in the early 1990s in a U.S.-French partnership. More

(Source: Space.com - Jun 22)