Keith’s note: There is a meeting next week regarding Landsat: Sustainable Land Imaging Mission Alternatives Analysis Team Industry. The meeting is looking for the cheapest way to do the least […]
Landsat
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Landsat Greatest Hits Video
Landsat’s Global Perspective Over 40 Years, NASA “On July 23rd, 1972, the first Landsat spacecraft launched into orbit. At the time, it was called “Earth Resources Technology Satellite,” or ERTS, […]
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NRC: Landsat Data Not Sustainable
NRC Warns Landsat-Type Data Not Sustainable Under Current Practices, Space Policy Online “The National Research Council (NRC) today issued its much-anticipated report on how to ensure continuity of Landsat-type land […]
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Landsat Data Continuity Mission Launched
NASA Launches New Earth Observation Satellite to Continue 40-Year Legacy, SpaceRef “NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) roared into space at 1:02 p.m. EST (10:02 a.m. PST) Monday aboard an […]
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Landsat 5 Sets Guinness World Record
Landsat 5 Sets Guinness World Record for Longest Operating Earth Observation Satellite, NASA Goddard “Landsat 5 successfully set the new Guinness World Records title for ‘Longest-operating Earth observation satellite’ as […]
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Looming Crisis In Earth Observation
NASA Budget Would Be More of the Same … on the Surface, National Journal “Unfortunately, the Committee has lost confidence in NOAA’s ability to control procurement costs or articulate reliable […]
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Did China Hack U.S. Satellites? (NASA Update)
NASA Statement on Suspicious Terra Spacecraft Events According to NASA PAO: “NASA experienced two suspicious events with the Terra spacecraft in the summer and fall of 2008. There was no […]