Spaceflight Now: Landsat Hanging On

Jan. 13 • In an article written for Spaceflight Now, Stephen Clark chronicles the recent triumph of Landsat 5 over a failed downlink transmitter in December. The article is full of quotes from Bruce Quirk, the USGS land remote sensing program coordinator; Kristi Klein, the USGS Landsat Program Manger; Jim Tucker, a NASA scientist; and Richard Allen, a Landsat Science Team member giving a good overview of the current program status.

+ “Landsat fleet hanging on, waiting for reinforcements” by Stephen Clark, Spaceflight Now [external link]

 

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