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Landsat 8

Landsat 8 captures multispectral imagery used to monitor crops, wildfires, glaciers and urban growth. Its open data is among the most widely used Earth-observation resources in the world.

Technical specifications

3D model is aproximate

CATEGORY

Earth Science

TYPE

Earth Observation

COUNTRY

United States

OPERATOR

NASA · USGS

LAUNCH DATE

Feb 11, 2013

LAUNCH SITE

Vandenberg

ORBIT CLASS

LEO

ALTITUDE · KM

703

ORBITAL PERIOD · MIN

98.83

INCLINATION · DEG

98.23

APOGEE · KM

704

PERIGEE · KM

702

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