Landsat 8 Launch footage

  • Released Thursday, May 23, 2013
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The Landsat Data Continuity Mission launched on February 11, 2013, from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard an Atlas V-401 rocket.

LDCM will be renamed Landsat 8 when operations are handed over to the US Geological Survey on May 30, 2013. NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat, and the USGS preserves a 40-year archive of Landsat images that is freely available data over the Internet.

Video of launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) observatory on February 11, 2013, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, riding on an Atlas V-401 rocket.

separation of the LDCM satellite from the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas-V rocket. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission launched into space on February 11, 2013, from Vandenberg Air Force Base and is a joint program managed by NASA and the USGS.

video file of the tower roll back prior to the launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) from Vandenberg Air Force Base on February 11, 2013.

timelapse video of the tower roll back prior to the launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite on board an Atlas V rocket on February 11, 2013, from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

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This page was originally published on Thursday, May 23, 2013.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:52 PM EDT.

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  • LDCM Launch Press (ID: 2013009)
    Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 5:00AM
    Produced by - Walt Feimer (HTSI)