{"id":74452,"date":"2015-04-17T20:41:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T12:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-usgs-start-work-on-landsat-9-and-free-flyer-satellite\/"},"modified":"2015-04-17T20:41:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T12:41:01","slug":"nasa-usgs-start-work-on-landsat-9-and-free-flyer-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-usgs-start-work-on-landsat-9-and-free-flyer-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA, USGS Start Work on Landsat 9 and Free-Flyer Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 04-17-2015] <b>NASA<\/b> and the <b>United States Geological Survey <\/b>(USGS) have started working on the Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite, with a launch planned for 2023. NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. is leading the Landsat 9 flight segment. In addition to building the satellite, the space agency is also responsible for its launch and the initial check-out and commissioning. USGS will operate the Landsat 9 satellite and handling processing, archiving, and the free distribution of mission data.<\/p>\n<p>NASA Goddard is also building a Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) as a \u201cfree-flyer\u201d satellite designed to closely match the TIRS instrument on Landsat 8. The Landsat 8 TIRS instrument had a three-year lifespan, whereas the upcoming free flyer is being designed for five years to ensure mission continuity. The free-flyer is scheduled to launch in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a launch in 2023, Landsat 9 would propel the program past 50 years of collecting global land cover data,\u201d said Jeffrey Masek, Landsat 9 project scientist at NASA Goddard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 04-17-2015] NASA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have started working on the Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite, with a launch planned for 2023. NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. is leading the Landsat 9 flight segment. In addition to building the satellite, the space agency is also responsible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58544,"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-74452","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\/74452"}],"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=74452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}