Landsat 5 has secured a new world record title for being the longest-operating Earth observation satellite after almost three decades in orbit. Guinness World Records sent an email confirmation to ...

The USGS is pleased to announce Landsat 5 is back in operation. USGS and NASA engineers were able to make adjustments to operating procedures for the solar array drive mechanism that now allows the ...

Today the U.S. Geological Survey announced that Landsat 5 will be decommissioned over the coming months, bringing to a close the longest-operating Earth observing satellite mission in history. By any ...

Communities worldwide rely on reservoirs for drinking water, hydroelectric power, irrigation, and more. These critical ...

Landsat 5, an Earth observation satellite scheduled for decommissioning June 30, has been spared for at least several months, officials at the U.S. Geological Survey announced. Thanks to several large ...

This Landsat 5 satellite image of the Wallow North Fire in east central Arizona was taken on June 15, 2011 at 19:54:23 Zulu (3:54 p.m. EDT). This false-colored image uses a 7, 4, 2 band combination ...

Launched back in March of 1984 with the intent of capturing satellite imagery of Earth, Landsat 5 was initially only planned for a three-year mission. Back in March of this year, it celebrated 28 ...

An Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from California Monday and boosted a powerful Landsat remote-sensing satellite into polar orbit. The $750 million mission will replace an aging, less powerful satellite ...

NASA announced Thursday the upcoming launch of a new satellite, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), to monitor Earth's landscape and the changes to it. The new satellite, scheduled to launch ...

1. Seattle, Washington, in false color using TM/ETM+ data (Landsat 7). From C. Small, 2006, Urban Landsat: Cities from Space, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications ...