Sensor Summary Fact Sheet for Landsat 5 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 5
The Landsat 5 satellite, which has two instruments on board namely the MSS and TM sensors, was launched on 1 March 1984 by the USGS. The MSS instrument was switched off in August 1995. On 18 November 2011, TM acquisitions were suspended after technical difficulties, but a legacy of 28 years of global imagery is archived.
http://landsat.usgs.gov/about_landsat5.php
March 1, 1984
Decommissioned 5 June 2013
705 km
km
16 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 5
1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1993
22 37 5015 4525 4220 1561 1596