Ralph Gaume, director of the NSF’s astronomical sciences division, received an initial JASON letter report in mid-2020-08-01 and expected the final JASON report around 2020-10-01.
Jason Andrews previously founded Andrews Space, Spaceflight, and BlackSky and merged those companies under Spaceflight in 2015.
As director of the Space Test Program, D. Jason Cothern led the Rocket Systems Launch Program and was mission director for the Department of Defense’s first SpaceX Falcon 9 launch that deployed the NASA and NOAA DSCOVR satellite in February 2015.
Brig. Gen. D. Jason Cothern was named vice commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base on 2020-02-13.
The sea-level measurement mission sequence includes Topex-Poseidon (1992), Jason-1 (2001), Jason-2 (2008), and Jason-3 (2016).
Jason Dunn serves as the managing director of Made In Space Europe.
The original Jason satellite launched in 2001 and ended its mission in 2013 in an orbit of about 1,325 km.
The OSTM/Jason-2 spacecraft was designed and built prior to the adoption of the international 25-year post-mission reentry requirement for low Earth orbit spacecraft.
Final decommissioning activities for Jason-2 began after the mission ended and were completed by 2019-10-09.
Jason-2, also known as the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), launched in June 2008 for a mission originally expected to last three years.
A bipartisan amendment to strike section 1601 of the HASC version of the 2020 NDAA is expected to be offered by Representatives Doug Lamborn and Jason Crow during the committee markup.
SpaceX launched the Jason-3 oceanography mission for NASA in 2016.