Landsat 8 Launch footage
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.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientist
- James R. Irons (NASA/GSFC)
Producer
- Matthew Radcliff (KBRwyle)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
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This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:- None
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