The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA / USGS program. On 23 July 1972...
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Landsat 8 is an American Earth observation satellite launched on 11 February 2013. It is the eighth satellite in the Landsat program and the seventh to...
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Landsat 4 is the fourth satellite of the Landsat program. It was launched on July 16, 1982, with the primary goal of providing a global archive of satellite...
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archive. It is the ninth satellite developed in the Landsat program, and eighth to reach orbit (Landsat 6 failed to reach orbit). The Critical Design Review...
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Landsat 7 is the seventh satellite of the Landsat program. Launched on 15 April 1999, Landsat 7's primary goal is to refresh the global archive of satellite...
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collect imagery of the surface of Earth. A continuation of the Landsat Program, Landsat 5 was jointly managed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the...
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Landsat 1 (LS-1), formerly named ERTS-A and ERTS-1, was the first satellite of the United States' Landsat program. It was a modified version of the Nimbus...
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Landsat 3 is the third satellite of the Landsat program. It was launched on March 5, 1978, with the primary goal of providing a global archive of satellite...
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Landsat 6, equipped with upgraded versions of the instruments on Landsat 5, was designed to carry forward the Landsat program. It was launched on October...
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Landsat Island is a small, uninhabited island located at approximately 60°10'37"N 64°02'30"W, 20 kilometres (12 mi) off the northeast coast of Labrador...
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to the Landsat program, having designed the Multispectral Scanner which was first used on Landsat 1. She has been called "The Mother of Landsat" for this...
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Apollo 11 missing tapes (redirect from Apollo program missing tapes)
years immediately following the mission. In the early 1980s, NASA's Landsat program was facing a severe data tape shortage and it is likely the tapes were...
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formats that image processing systems used in the early years of NASA's Landsat program. Thomas was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from high school...
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List of NASA missions (redirect from NASA programs)
November 2004, operational Landsat program Landsat 1, launched July 1972, completed Landsat 2, launched January 1975, completed Landsat 3, launched March 1978...
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and programs Explorers Program Landsat program Getaway Special Space Network Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRS) Hitchhiker Program Cosmic...
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Earth Observing System (category NASA programs)
As of 2022, there have been nine LandSat satellites with LandSat 7, 8, and 9 orbiting the Earth. The LandSat program has involved many organisations since...
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Satellite imagery (section Landsat)
among the public. Also in 1972 the United States started the Landsat program, the largest program for acquisition of imagery of Earth from space. In 1977,...
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Landsat 2 is the second satellite of the Landsat program. The spacecraft originally carried a designation of ERTS-B (Earth Resource Technology Satellite...
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Thematic Mapper, one of the Earth observing sensors introduced in the Landsat program Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper, a custom-built 0.6 metres (24 in) telescope...
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Space Test Program US Space Force "Landsat History". NASA. Retrieved July 5, 2021. Foust, Jeff (September 27, 2021). "Atlas 5 launches Landsat 9". Space...
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Space policy of the United States (redirect from US space program)
Administration operates various services with space components, such as the Landsat program. Military space activities are implemented by the United States Space...
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Earth Observations Global Earth Observation System of Systems Phi Lab Landsat program TerraSAR-X: a German Earth observation satellite Radiant Earth Foundation:...
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Landsat program photo with Mobile Bay in the center...
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found on Earth observation satellites, including (for example) the Landsat program or the IKONOS satellite. Maps of land cover and land use from thematic...
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engineers and program specialists in one of the Agency's most ambitious projects to determine if life ever existed on Mars. The programs long range objective...
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Command. The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA / USGS program. On July 23...
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November 2006 Rocchio, Laura. "The Landsat Program." National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov , accessed 4 December...
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Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), which became the precursor to the Landsat program. These early sensors had minimal spectral resolution, but tended to...
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Thematic Mapper (category Landsat program)
introduced in the Landsat program. The first was placed aboard Landsat 4 (decommissioned in 2001), and another was operational aboard Landsat 5 up to 2012...
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observation satellites (e.g. Landsat program, 1972), space telescopes and particularly space stations (e.g. Salyut program, 1971). Negotiation in 1979...
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