{"id":67646,"date":"2017-07-31T19:54:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/general-dynamics-to-manage-landsat-8-satellite\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T19:54:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:54:26","slug":"general-dynamics-to-manage-landsat-8-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/general-dynamics-to-manage-landsat-8-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"General Dynamics to Manage Landsat 8 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> U.S. Geological Survey<\/strong> (USGS) has awarded <strong>General Dynamics <\/strong>a contract to manage the current Landsat 8 mission from the existing Landsat mission operations center at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in&nbsp;Seabrook, Maryland. Concurrently, the company will design and integrate a new Landsat Multi-satellite Operations Center (LMOC) at GSFC while continuing the flight of the current Landsat 8 satellite. The company expects the LMOC will be ready to provide flight and mission operations following the launch of the new USGS Landsat 9 satellite in 2020. The contract is valued up to&nbsp;$155 million&nbsp;over five years with five additional, one-year options.<\/p>\n<p>According to USGS, Landsat represents the world\u2019s longest continuously acquired collection of space-based, moderate resolution, land remote sensing data. Initiated in 1966, millions of sensor images provide a free resource of documenting agriculture, geology, forestry, regional planning, education, mapping, and global change research. Landsat images also provide life-saving information for emergency response and disaster relief operations. The Landsat Project is a joint initiative between the USGS and NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has awarded General Dynamics a contract to manage the current Landsat 8 mission from the existing Landsat mission operations center at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in&nbsp;Seabrook, Maryland. Concurrently, the company will design and integrate a new Landsat Multi-satellite Operations Center (LMOC) at GSFC while continuing the flight of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}