The instruments aboard Landsat 9 are the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2).
An Atlas V launched the Landsat 9 satellite on 2021-09-27.
United Launch Alliance had launched 144 times to date with a 100 percent mission success record prior to the Landsat 9 launch.
Combined, Landsat 9 and Landsat 8 will add nearly 1,500 new scenes a day to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat archive.
Landsat 9 extensively leverages the design of the Landsat 8 spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman.
Ball Aerospace built the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) instrument that launched aboard Landsat 9.
Ball Aerospace designed and built the cryocooler that will keep Landsat 9’s Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2) chilled to 40 Kelvin (-388 F).
The Atlas V delivered Landsat 9 into a near-polar, sun-synchronous orbit around Earth.
The Atlas V Landsat 9 mission used a dual-orbit profile that deployed Landsat 9 and the smallsats into two different orbits, enabling ULA’s first four-burn Centaur mission on an Atlas V rocket.
Landsat 9 was launched on 2021-09-27 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Space Systems Command’s Launch Enterprise Mission Manifest Office worked with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center during integration of the Landsat 9 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter (L9EFS).
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 launch vehicle carried the NASA–U.S. Geological Survey Landsat 9 Observatory satellite and four cubesats from the U.S. Space Force’s Mission Manifest Office on the 2021-09-27 mission.
Landsat 9 features upgrades to its two instruments, a visible and infrared imager and a thermal infrared sensor.
The Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center manages the Landsat 9 launch service.
The Landsat 9 mission includes the Landsat 9 ESPA Flight System which will deploy multiple CubeSats after Landsat 9 separation.
The U.S. Geological Survey operates the Landsat 9 satellite and the mission data archive.
The launch of Landsat 9 on an Atlas 5 from Vandenberg Space Force Base slipped from 2021-09-16 to no earlier than 2021-09-23 due to pandemic demands for medical liquid oxygen impacting delivery of the needed liquid nitrogen supply.
The Defense Logistics Agency informed the Landsat 9 project on 2021-08-23 that liquid nitrogen supplies at Vandenberg Space Force Base were critically low and could not support upcoming prelaunch test activities or the launch itself.
Ball Aerospace developed and built the cryocooler for Landsat 9’s Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2) instrument.
Ball Aerospace built the OLI-2 instrument for Landsat 9.