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Landsat 6, equipped with upgraded versions of the instruments on Landsat 5, was designed to carry forward the Landsat program. It was launched on October 5, 1993, with a Titan II launch vehicle, but failed to reach orbit. Landsat 6 omitted the Multi-Spectral Scanner found on its predecessors, but carried an Enhanced Thematic Mapper, which ...
In 1992, various efforts were made to procure funding for follow on Landsats and continued operations, but by the end of the year EOSAT ceased processing Landsat data. Landsat 6 was finally launched on 5 October 1993, but was lost in a launch failure. Processing of Landsat 4 and 5 data was resumed by EOSAT in 1994.
Landsat 6: NASA Intended: Low Earth Remote sensing: 5 October: Launch Failure Upper stage failed to ignite; Apogee: 724 kilometres (450 mi) 8 October 08:00 Long March 2C: Jiuquan LA-2B CALT: FSW 1–5: CASC: Low Earth Reconnaissance: 28 October: Successful 11 October 21:33:19 Soyuz-U Baikonur Site 1/5 VKS Progress M-20: Roskosmos Low Earth (Mir ...
NASA's Landsat satellites have consistently made history in Earth observation since the project's first launch in 1972, with this year marking 50 years of innovation and science. Its influence may ...
Landsat 9 is an Earth observation satellite launched on 27 September 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. [12] NASA is in charge of building, launching, and testing the satellite, while the United States Geological Survey (USGS) operates the satellite, and manages and distributes the data archive. [13]
1999 [3] [6] 1999.01.03 Mars Polar Lander: Delta II 7425 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 (CCAFS SLC 17B) 1999.02.07 Stardust: Delta II 7426 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 (CCAFS SLC 17A) 1999.03.04 Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) Pegasus XL: Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) 1999.04.15 Landsat 7
AST SpaceMobile of Texas is developing the world's first global cellular broadband network that can connect directly to your smartphone without special equipment.
Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]