Sensor Summary Fact Sheet for Landsat 2 MSS
Collection: Landsat
| The Landsat program, originally known as the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), was proposed in 1965 by the US Geological Survey(USGS) as a civilian satellite program. NASA started building the first satellite in 1970 and have launched 6 spacecraft successfully (Landsat 6 was lost at launch). In December 2009 all Landsat archive products were made available free to the public on the USGS website. | |
| USGS |
Satellite: Landsat 2
| The Landsat 1 (1972 to 1978), Landsat 2 (1975-1982) and Landsat 3 (1978-1983) satellites have the same MSS instrument on board | |
| http://landsat.usgs.gov/about_landsat2.php | |
| Jan. 22, 1975 | |
| Decommissioned 27 July 1983 | |
| 917 km | |
| km | |
| 18 days |
Sensor: MSS
| Multi-Spectral Scanner | |
| Optical | |
| Worldwide Reference System 1 (WRS1) | |
| Whisk Broom or Cross-track Optical Scanner | |
| 185 km | |
| 5 | |
| Multi-spectral; Thermal | |
| 500 - 12 600 nm | |
| 57 m x 79 m resampled to 60 m | |
| 8 | |
| 180 km x 170 km km | |
| Landsat 1; Landsat 2; Landsat 3; Landsat 4; 5; MSS; multi-spectral; 60m |
Yearly catalogue product overview for Landsat 2
| 1981 | 1982 |
|---|---|
| 25 | 10 |