# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BAp47CeoaKJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736967-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2016-01-17T21:02:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

And liftoff! The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched at 1:42 p.m. EST Sunday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with the Jason-3 spacecraft onboard. The spacecraft's solar arrays are out, it is power positive and engineers are beginning to send it commands. Jason-3, an international mission led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will help continue U.S.-European satellite measurements of global ocean height changes. 

Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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earthscience, nasabeyond, earth, science, nasa, launch, space, ocean, jason3, spacex, nasaearth, climate

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