An advanced photodetector camera that traces its heritage to one now flying on Landsat 8 is being studied as a potential payload on a conceptual satellite (CapSat) system purposely designed to take advantage of the expected boom in secondary-payload launch opportunities.
On Nov. 1, 2015 the TIRS instrument experienced an anomalous condition related to the instrument’s ability to accurately measure the location of the Scene Select Mirror.
A trio of Landsat calibration scientists—Brian Markham (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Jim Storey (Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies for USGS EROS) and Ron Morfitt (USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center) Landsat 8 Special Issue of the journal Remote Sensing.
It’s hard to believe a year has passed since the launch of Landsat 8. This first anniversary is going to be an exciting, upbeat celebration because the new satellite is meeting, if not exceeding, all expectations. “Landsat 8 is nearly perfect,” said Jim Lacasse, Landsat Operations and Maintenance Project Manager. “We’re getting really high quality data.”
[Source: European Space Agency] The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA have joined forces to ensure that Sentinel-2 and the newly launched Landsat Data Continuity Mission
[Source: Jon Campbell, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey] Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Assistant Secretary
A prelaunch news conference featuring NASA and USGS scientists was held on Feb. 8 at the Vandenberg AFB in California, where the launch of the
Feb. 8, 2013 • As Monday’s launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission approaches, lots of news organizations are following the story. Here’s a sampling of
Source: NASA Kennedy Space Center Feb. 8, 2013 • NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is the eighth satellite in the Landsat series, which began in
Feb. 7, 2013 • With the LDCM launch fast approaching there are a dizzying amount of details out there. Here we attempt to organize some of
Jan. 23, 2013 • Technicians encapsulate NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite in its payload fairing in the Astrotech processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force
Source: Steve Cole, NASA HQ; Rani Gran, NASA GSFC; Jon Campbell, USGS Jan. 10, 2013 • NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 from
Source: USGS Landsat Project Dec. 21, 2012 • The latest Landsat Project Update is now available from USGS: Landsat Mission News Landsat 5 Decommission Plans LDCM arrives
Contributor: Ellen Gray NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Dec. 20, 2012 • An oversized semi-trailer truck carrying NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) has arrived
Dec. 13, 2012 • Orbital Sciences Corp., the LDCM spacecraft provider, held a press briefing on Dec. 13 following the successful completion of the LDCM satellite
Source: NASA Kennedy Space Center Dec. 11, 2012 • NASA’s Kennedy Space Center reported that the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Launch Vehicle Readiness Review for
Dec. 4, 2012 • Today at Vandenberg Airforce Base, a fueling exercise for the Landsat Data Continuity Missions’s (LDCM/Landsat 8) Atlas V 401 rocket rook place. Spaceflight
Source: @NASAKennedy Nov. 27, 2012 • At 3:27 p.m. ET, NASA Kennedy reported that the Atlas V payload fairing arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base for Landsat
Source: Rani Gran, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Nov. 26, 2012 • On Nov. 23, 2012, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite concluded environmental testing in
Nov. 5, 2012 • Kennedy Space Center has a media gallery of LDCM rocket assembly photos. Visit the gallery to see photos of LDCM’s Atlas V
Orbital Sciences Corporation recently completed Electromagnetic Interference/Capability (EMI/EMC) testing and structural dynamics testing of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. Pictured above, engineers at
Source: NASA GSFC @ YouTube • All objects emit infrared radiation and the characteristics of the infrared radiation are primarily dependent on the temperature of the
Source: NASA • Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz., have installed the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument back onto to the Landsat Data Continuity Mission
Related Links: + Details on LDCM Spacecraft & Instruments + NASA LDCM website + Landsat Data Continuity Mission
Source: Rani Gran, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. A new NASA satellite instrument that makes a quantum leap forward in detector technology has arrived
Yesterday the Landsat Data Continuity Mission’s Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) passed its pre-ship review. After being packed in a special container, TIRS was loaded onto
LDCM’s thermal instrument (TIRS) completed the last of its functional testing at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center yesterday. For the next two weeks the instrument
Source: Ellen Gray The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) that will fly on the next Landsat satellite came out of its first round of thermal vacuum testing
Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, AZ mechanically integrated the Operational Land Imager (OLI) onto the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft. The integration took
Special Topics: LDCM and LDCM Components The Operational Land Imager (OLI) is being built by the Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation. The Ball contract was
Special Topics: LDCM and LDCM Components The Calibration Subsystem for the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on LDCM uses both the sun and the absence of
Special Topics: LDCM and LDCM Components The OLI telescope uses a four-mirror compact design. The optics are positioned inside a lightweight, yet highly stable, carbon
Special Topics: LDCM and LDCM Components The Cryocooler is like a big refrigerator, except that it cools to cryogenic temperatures (below −150°C, −238°F or 123K).
