Tag: Landsat
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NASA’s Landsat 9 successfully launched aboard Atlas V from Vandenberg
United Launch Alliance has launched NASA’s most powerful Earth-imaging satellite, Landsat 9, on an Atlas V rocket. Liftoff occurred at 11:12 AM PDT (18:12 UTC) on Monday, September 27, from Space Launch Complex-3 East (SLC-3E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Atlas V placed the satellite into a near-polar, sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude…
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Coronavirus delays push back launch of next Landsat to September 2021
Artist’s illustration of the Landsat 9 satellite in orbit. Credit: NASA/GSFC The launch of the next Landsat land imaging mission — a joint project between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey — has been delayed until around September 2021 after the effects of the coronavirus pandemic slowed work on the spacecraft in Arizona, NASA officials…
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SpaceX, ULA win NASA contracts to launch Earth observation satellites
NASA has selected a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket (left) and a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket (right) to launch the Sentinel 6A/Jason-CS and Landsat 9 satellites in 2020 and 2021. Credit: SpaceX and ULA NASA has selected SpaceX and United Launch Alliance to deliver to orbit a joint U.S.-European oceanography mission and the next…
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NASA green lights key phase for Landsat-9’s development
NASA has contracted Orbital ATK via a “delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III)” contract for construction of the Landsat 9 spacecraft. The latest spacecraft in the Landsat series, which began operations in 1972, is expected to be launched by an Atlas V from Vandenberg in late 2020. Landsat-9: This latest spacecraft will…
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Google Cloud offers a quadrillion bytes of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite views
An image from the Sentinel-2 satellite shows the Australian city of Brisbane and its surroundings. (Credit: ESA / Google) How do you channel a flood of almost 5 million images into useful applications? Google Cloud is doing it with more than 30 years’ worth of satellite imagery from the Landsat and Sentinel-2 missions, for free. Satellite views…
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Satellites reveal just how bad the wildfires are in Alberta’s oil-sand country
A color-coded image from the Landsat 8 satellite’s Operational Land Imager shows fire and smoke in the vicinity of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. The red spots indicate active fires. Smoke appears white, and burned areas appear brown. The image was acquired May 5. (Credit: NASA / USGS) Canadian firefighters are still struggling to get…
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Multiple satellites planned in long-term Landsat program
Artist’s concept of Landsat 9, an upgraded rebuild of the Landsat 8 satellite launched in February 2013. Credit: NASA The launch of the next Landsat Earth-viewing satellite in 2023 will be preceded by a smaller spacecraft to map the planet with an infrared camera under a new land imaging roadmap outlined by NASA and the…