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New Landsat Earth-monitoring satellite launched from California

2013-02-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A new satellite to keep tabs on Earth's changing landscape rocketed into orbit on Monday, ensuring continuation of a 40-year-old photo archive documenting urban sprawl, glacial melting, natural disasters and other environmental shifts. The eighth and most sophisticated Landsat spacecraft blasted off at 1:02 p.m. EST (1802 GMT) aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch was broadcast on NASA Television. The so-called Landsat Data Continuity Mission,...

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Earth-Observing Satellite Is Launched by NASA at Crucial Moment

2013-02-11 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: NASA is expected to launch today its newest Earth-observing satellite, Landsat 8, at a time when previous Landsat satellites have either stopped working or have developed serious technical problems. NASA scientists say the launch of the $855 million satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is vital to the space agencys mission of monitoring the Earth during a period of unprecedented environmental change from disappearing glaciers and sea ice, to widespread forest loss, to intensifying...

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