Landsat 9

In coordination with the Defense Innovation Unit, CesiumAstro is launching its first two satellites in September 2021 on a rideshare with Landsat-9.

The Landsat-9 EFS will carry up to 18 National Security Space and civil multi-manifest satellite vehicles that will be deployed independently of the Landsat-9 anchor satellite.

The Landsat-9 EFS joint effort is a NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center activity funded and manifested by the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Mission Manifest Office at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California.

The Landsat-9 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter (EFS) team completed Design Status Review 3 on 2020-12-15 and was deemed ready to proceed to the final stages of integration.

The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) is a six-unit cubesat designed to characterize the composition and mass-loss rates of exoplanet atmospheres and is scheduled to launch in 2021 on the Landsat 9 spacecraft.

Landsat 9 will house the Operational Land Imager 2 from Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado and the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

NASA and USGS are preparing to launch Landsat 9 in September 2021.

After AEHF-6, Parsons’ next launch manifest integration job will be a secondary payload that will ride with Landsat-9, an Earth observation satellite that NASA plans to launch in 2021.

CUTE is nearing completion and is scheduled to launch in early 2021 as a secondary payload on the Atlas V launch of Landsat 9.

Parsons will integrate a secondary payload for the Atlas 5 launch of Landsat 9, a NASA Earth observation satellite projected to launch in December 2020.

United Launch Alliance received a NASA contract in October 2017 to launch Landsat-9 on an Atlas V 401 from Vandenberg Air Force Base with a total cost to NASA of $153,800,000.