{"id":83924,"date":"2011-11-21T22:03:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T14:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/usgs-aging-landsat-5-on-the-brink-of-overdue-retirement\/"},"modified":"2011-11-21T22:03:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T14:03:39","slug":"usgs-aging-landsat-5-on-the-brink-of-overdue-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/usgs-aging-landsat-5-on-the-brink-of-overdue-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"USGS\u2019 Aging Landsat 5 On the Brink of Overdue Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-21-11] The <b>U.S. Geological Survey\u2019s (USGS)<\/b> Landsat 5 Earth observation satellite has stopped transmitting images due to a rapidly degrading electronic component, the agency confirmed Nov. 18.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The USGS took over operation of the 27-year-old satellite in 2001. The aging satellite has been plagued with failures, including a recent malfunction of its key subsystems. USGS said its engineers have identified problems with the satellite\u2019s amplifier that have led to a reduction in image download capabilities over the past 10 days.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;In the case of a complete shutdown of Landsat 5, the USGS can still collect global imagery from the Landsat 7 satellite, which remains in orbit even though the 12-year-old satellite was designed for a five-year service life. The Landsat 8 program, also known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, is currently scheduled for launch in January 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-21-11] The U.S. Geological Survey\u2019s (USGS) Landsat 5 Earth observation satellite has stopped transmitting images due to a rapidly degrading electronic component, the agency confirmed Nov. 18. &nbsp; &nbsp;The USGS took over operation of the 27-year-old satellite in 2001. The aging satellite has been plagued with failures, including a recent malfunction of its key subsystems. [&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-83924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83924"}],"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=83924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}