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Landsat 9
Status:
Current
Mission Category:
Earth Systematic Missions Program, Inter-Agency Partnerships
Launch Date: September 27, 2021
Launch Location: Vandenberg Space Force Base
Designed Life: September 27, 2026
Landsat 9 was successfully launched on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Landsat 9 data is publicly available from USGS. Landsat 9—a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey— continues the Landsat program’s critical role in monitoring, understanding and managing the land resources needed to sustain human life. Today’s increased rates of global land cover and land use change have profound consequences for weather and climate change, ecosystem function and services, carbon cycling and sequestration, resource management, the national and global economy, human health, and society. Landsat is the only U.S. satellite system designed and operated to repeatedly observe the global land surface at a moderate scale that shows both natural and human-induced change.
Key Landsat 9 Facts
| Mission/Portal Page: | https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/landsat-9/landsat-9-overview |
|---|---|
| Launch Vehicle: | United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket |
| Altitude:Distance from sea level. | 705km |
| Inclination: | 98.2° |
| Origination: | NASA/USGS |
| Instruments: |
Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2)
Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 (TIRS-2) |
| Project Scientist(s): |
Jeff Masek |
| Deputy Project Scientist(s): |
Bruce Cook |
| Other Key Personnel: |
Dave Jarrett Garik Gutman Del Jenstrom |