The Landsat Program - History
Landsat 3
The Details
- Launch Date: March 5, 1978
- Status: expired, March 31, 1983
- Sensors: RBV, MSS
- Altitude: nominally 900 km
- Inclination: 99.2°
- Orbit: polar, sun-synchronous
- Equatorial Crossing Time: nominally 9:42 AM mean local time (descending node)
- Period of Revolution : 103 minutes; ~14 orbits/day
- Repeat Coverage : 18 days
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