Landsat 8 | CosmoVerse

Satellite Overview

An Earth-observing satellite collecting multispectral imagery for land and water monitoring.

Provides medium-resolution land imaging

Continues the long-running Landsat record

Images Earth in visible, infrared, and thermal bands

Supports agriculture, water, and disaster analysis

Orbital & System Specs

NASA / USGS

Operator

Earth Observation

Mission Type

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Orbit Type

705 km

Altitude

7.5 km/s

Velocity

99 minutes

Orbital Period

98.2 degrees

Inclination

About 3 m by 3 m bus with deployed solar array

Dimensions

About 2,623 kg at launch

Mass

About 1,550 W

Power

February 11, 2013

Launch Date

Active

Status

Onboard Systems

OLI

Operational Land Imager collects visible to shortwave infrared data.

TIRS

Thermal Infrared Sensor measures land-surface temperature.

Spacecraft Bus

Supports power, data handling, and communications.

Solar Array

Supplies spacecraft electrical power.

Mission History

No recorded missions in the database for this object.

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