Successful launch of Landsat 9.
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Landsat 9
Atlas V 401
Historical mission record
This page records Atlas V 401 | Landsat 9 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission
Landsat 9 is a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey to continue the Landsat program's critical role in monitoring, understanding and managing the land resources needed to sustain human life. Landsat 9, like Landsat 8, has a higher imaging capacity than past Landsats, allowing more valuable data to be added to the Landsat global land archive. Its operational orbit is a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 705 km for a mission lifetime of at least 5 years.
- Launch vehicle
- Atlas V 401
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Destination orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit
- Launch pad
- Space Launch Complex 3E
- Provider
- United Launch Alliance
- Programs
- Landsat
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Atlas V 401
An Atlas V with a 4 meter diameter fairing, no boosters and a single centaur upper stage engine.
- Height
- 58.3 m
- Diameter
- 3.8 m
- Stages
- 2
- Recorded launches
- 41
- First flight
- 2002-08-21
Recorded timing
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Launch site & orbit
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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