An Atlas 5 rocket launches spaceward carrying NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite on the Landsat 8 mission. Liftoff occurred at 1:02 p.m. EST/10:02 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force ...

It will then be renamed Landsat 8 and control will be transferred to NASA's mission partner, the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which will continue the Landsat program.

It saw the Landsat-8 mission hurtle skywards on an Atlas rocket from the US Air Force base at Vandenberg shortly after 10:00 local time (18:00 GMT). The spacecraft will maintain the longest ...

The NASA-USGS Landsat Data Continuity Mission, renamed Landsat 8 after launch, carries two sensors — the Operational Land Imager built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder ...

We told you earlier this year about the launch of the Landsat 8 satellite and now the first images captured by that satellite are starting to arrive. NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM ...

This mission will focus on collecting essential data related to Earth’s forests, farms, cities, and freshwater regions. The Landsat 9 joins its predecessor, Landsat 8, in orbit with both ...

The Americans are just about to launch the Landsat-8 mission, which will continue a remarkable, 40-year, unbroken account of the changing surface of Planet Earth. Matt Larsen, the associate ...

when the agency will present its imaging strategy for the 20-year period that begins when Landsat 8’s primary mission ends in 2018. Other than mentioning how high launch costs have diminished ...

The effects of stray light on Landsat 8’s thermal band measurements were detected shortly after the mission launched in February 2013. Defective optics in the thermal infrared sensor allow unwanted ...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base with NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) payload on Feb. 11, 2013. See how NASA's Landsat ...