Earth  ID: 11289

Landsat 8 Launch footage

Released on May 23, 2013
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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

Credits

Matthew R. Radcliff (USRA): Producer
James R. Irons (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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Missions:
Landsat
LDCM: Landsat Data Continuity Mission
Landsat 8

This item is part of this series:
Landsat

Goddard TV Tape:
G2013-009 -- LDCM Launch Press

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Landsat
SVS >> Launch
NASA Science >> Earth