Atlas V 401 | Landsat 9

Atlas V 401

Sep 27, 2021, 6:12 PM UTC

Mission Elapsed Time

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Mission Details

Landsat 9 is a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey to continue the Landsat program's critical role in monitoring, understanding and managing the land resources needed to sustain human life. Landsat 9, like Landsat 8, has a higher imaging capacity than past Landsats, allowing more valuable data to be added to the Landsat global land archive. Its operational orbit is a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 705 km for a mission lifetime of at least 5 years.

Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
Programs: Landsat

Launch Site

Pad: Space Launch Complex 3E
Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Country: 🇺🇸 USA