The Landsat Program - History
Landsat 5
The Details
- Launch Date: March 1, 1984
- Status: TM still operational! MSS instrument decommissioned
- Sensors:TM, MSS
- Altitude: 705 km
- Inclination: 98.2°
- Orbit: polar, sun-synchronous
- Equatorial Crossing Time: nominally 9:45 AM (± 15 min.) local time (descending node)
- Period of Revolution : 99 minutes; ~14.5 orbits/day
- Repeat Coverage : 16 days
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