Sensor Summary Fact Sheet for Landsat 5 TM

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: TM
Thematic Mapper
Optical
Worldwide Reference System 2 (WRS2)
Whisk Broom or Cross-track Optical Scanner
185 km
7
Multi-spectral; Thermal
450 - 12 500 nm
30 m; 120m resampled to 30 m
8
180 km x 170 km km
Landsat 5; TM; multi-spectral; thermal; 30m; 120m
Yearly catalogue product overview for Landsat 5
1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
4187 5086 5618 3908 5687 7380 8413 7539 7617 8505 5587 6840 4421 1456 8192 8192 7934 5712 4236 2519 1673 22