After 29 years, Landsat 5, has long outlived its initial three-year mission.
Researchers say Landsat 8 will offer far more detailed imagery than its predecessors.
Today’s launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, soon to be known as Landsat 8, was a long time coming.
The new satellite will offer far more detailed imagery than its predecessors.
Marcia McNutt is stepping down as the director of the USGS to return to academia.
Demand for free Landsat Earth imaging data “continues to grow and continues to grow.”
A day after the eighth Landsat arrived at Vandenberg, the USGS announced it will begin procedures to deorbit Landsat 5.
GREENBELT, Md. — Orbital Sciences Corp. continues to have problems on a money-losing Earth observation satellite contract inherited from General Dynamics Corp. that is at the center of a legal dispute between the companies.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is seeking $53 million in 2013 to continue operating the nation’s Landsat spacecraft and disseminating their data while preparing a new ground system for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) launching in January.
It is an oft-quoted saying that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. A lack of historical perspective would explain why the U.S. Congress appears intent on steering the nation’s civilian land imaging program down an all-too-familiar path to instability.
SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. government agencies are working together to look for ways to reduce the cost of future Landsat missions as a result of congressional direction included in the 2012 budget passed in December.
SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists eagerly awaiting the scheduled launch in early 2013 of the next Landsat moderate-resolution land imaging satellite stressed the importance of continuing the data records with future spacecraft during a Nov. 16 press briefing.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has suspended imaging operations for the Landsat 5 satellite as engineers mount a 90-day effort to restore satellite-to-ground transmissions for the 27-year-old spacecraft, the agency announced Nov. 18.
WASHINGTON — NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed Oct. 28 possible attempts to tamper with on-orbit civilian Earth observation spacecraft with radio frequency signals.
A U.S. House of Representatives appropriations panel that oversees the Interior Department approved a spending bill July 7 that would deny funding the administration request to transfer the Landsat satellite imaging program from NASA to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
SAN FRANCISCO — Mapping technology giant ESRI has created a new Web-based tool to provide access to 30 years of global Landsat satellite imagery and enable users to identify changes in specific regions over time. Users can see a vivid depiction, for example, of Alaskan glaciers melting, the forests of South America being converted to farmland and the explosive growth of urban areas from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Las Vegas.
