<p>NASA Ships Sensors for Seafaring Satellite to France
</p><p>The three NASA-built instruments and associated ground support equipment for the U.S./European Jason-3 ocean altimetry satellite are removed from a Cargo Lux 747-800 transport plane in Luxembourg on May 21, 2013, following a transatlantic flight. 
</p><p>The instruments left NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., on May 19 and arrived at the Thales Alenia Space Integration Center in Cannes, France on May 22.
</p><p>There they were integrated with the Jason-3 spacecraft and tested in preparation for a July 2015 California launch. Jason-3 is a joint mission with CNES, EUMETSAT, NASA, and NOAA to measure ocean topography.
</p><p>Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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