NASA to Brief Media on First Earth Water-Monitoring Satellite Mission

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2022 -- NASA will host a virtual media briefing at 10:30 a.m. EST (7:30 a.m. PST) Nov. 14, at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite.

An area of the Gulf of Carpentaria on Australia’s northern coast is shown from the International Space Station in September. The SWOT satellite will measure the height of nearly all the water on Earth, including lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and the ocean. Credit: NASA

Scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in central California at 3:46 a.m. PST (6:46 a.m. EST) on Monday, Dec. 12, SWOT will be the first satellite mission to observe nearly all water on Earth's surface, measuring the height of water in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, as well as the ocean. It is a collaboration between NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the UK Space Agency.

The briefing will livestream on NASA Television, Facebook and YouTube, as well as the agency's app and on its website.

Participants will include:

Tahani Amer, program executive, Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters
Parag Vaze, SWOT project manager, JPL
Lee-Lueng Fu, SWOT project scientist, JPL
Ben Hamlington, research scientist, Sea Level and Ice Group, JPL
Thierry Lafon, SWOT program manager, CNES

To ask questions by phone, members of the media should email Rexana Vizza at [email protected] to RSVP no later than two hours before the start of the event. Questions can be asked on social media during the briefing using #AskNASA.
For more information on SWOT, please visit:

https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov/

SOURCE NASA