The French-U.S. SWOT mission is collecting vital data on weather events like flooding.
Hydrology data from the SWOT mission is available at hydroweb.next.
Oceanography data from the SWOT mission is accessible via the AVISO platform.
The University of Bristol received £206,000 to use data from NASA’s UK-backed Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission to improve global flood modeling accuracy by an order of magnitude.
The SWOT mission was jointly developed and managed by NASA, CNES, the Canadian Space Agency, and the UK Space Agency.
SpaceX launched NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission to low Earth orbit on Friday, 2022-12-16 at 3:46 a.m. PT from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
CNES spent 340,000,000 EUR (about $362,000,000) on the SWOT mission and provided the altimeter, other instruments, and the spacecraft bus.
NASA spent $822,400,000 on the SWOT mission, including KaRIn, some other instruments, and the launch.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster used for the SWOT mission had previously launched NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, and two Starlink missions.