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OAS platform Detail for Landsat 5
| platforms_id: | 12449 |
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| Name: | Landsat 5 |
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| Countries: | UNITED STATES |
| Comments: | Name: Landsat 5 Country: USA Platform Class: 65-Orbiting satellite Synonyms: Commissioned Date: 1984-03-01 Decommissioned Date: 2013-06-05 Notes: On March 1, 1984, NASA launched Landsat 5, the agency’s last originally mandated Landsat satellite. Landsat 5 was designed and built at the same time as Landsat 4 and carried the same payload: the Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) and the Thematic Mapper (TM) instruments. In 1987, the Landsat 5 TDRSS transmitter (Ku-band) failed. This failure made downlinking data acquired outside of the U.S. data acquisition circle (i.e., range of U.S. ground receiving antennas) impossible; Landsat 5 has no on-board data recorder to record acquired data for later downlink. The MSS instrument was turned off in August of 1995. In November 2011, the TM instrument stopped acquiring images due to a rapidly degrading electronic component. A few months later, engineers turned the MSS instrument back on, and implemented new capabilities to ingest the raw instrument data at the ground station. Info Source: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/?p=3180 http://landsat.usgs.gov/about_landsat5.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_5 http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/?p=3229 |
| Deprecated: | false |
| Metadata version: | 0 |
| Keydate: | 2015-01-27 15:49:52+00 |
| Editdate: | 2015-01-27 15:49:52+00 |