{"id":81799,"date":"2012-12-26T18:06:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T10:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eighth-landsat-satellite-arrives-at-vandenberg\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T10:06:32","slug":"eighth-landsat-satellite-arrives-at-vandenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eighth-landsat-satellite-arrives-at-vandenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighth Landsat Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-26-12] <strong>NASA\u2019s<\/strong> Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite has arrived at its California launch site at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in preparation for its launch in early February, the agency announced Dec. 26.  <br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The LDCM also serves as a mission for the <strong>U.S. Geological Survey<\/strong>, representing the eighth satellite in the Landsat series dating back to 1972.   The LDCM satellite will proceed through final tests and be integrated with its <strong>Orbital Sciences<\/strong>-built Atlas 5 rocket. The planned launch date is Feb. 11. <br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cLDCM builds on and strengthens a key American resource: a decades-long, unbroken Landsat-gathered record of our planet\u2019s natural resources, particularly its food, water and forests,\u201d Jim Irons, Landsat project scientist at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-26-12] NASA\u2019s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite has arrived at its California launch site at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in preparation for its launch in early February, the agency announced Dec. 26. &nbsp; &nbsp;The LDCM also serves as a mission for the U.S. Geological Survey, representing the eighth satellite in the Landsat series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-81799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81799"}],"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=81799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}