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- Landsat 2 is the second satellite of the Landsat program. The spacecraft originally carried a designation of ERTS-B (Earth Resource Technology Satellite B) but was renamed &Landsat 2& prior to its launch on January 22, 1975. Despite having a design life of one year, Landsat 2 operated for over seven years, finally ceasing operations on February 25, 1982. As in the case of its predecessor Landsat 1, the satellite's payload included two remote sensing instruments, the Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) and the Multi-Spectral Scanner (MSS). The specifications for these instruments were identical to those of the instruments carried on Landsat 1. (This was not the case for Landsat 3, which added a short-lived thermal band to the MSS instrument.) The data acquired by the MSS was considered more scientifically useful than the data returned from the RBV, which was rarely used and considered only for engineering evaluation purposes.
[Summary provided by NASA.]
Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: LANDSAT-2 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: LANDSAT Short_Name: LANDSAT-2 End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: MSS Short_Name: RBV End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Altitude: 900 km Orbit_Inclination: 99.2 degree Equator_Crossing: 9:42 AM mean local time Period: 103 minutes Repeat_Cycle: 18 days Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-02-01 Online_Resource: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/L2_td.html Sample_Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/Landsat2.jpg/200px-Landsat2.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1975-01-22 Launch_Site: Vandenberg AFB Design_Life: 1 Year Primary_Sponsor: NASA Primary_Sponsor: USGS End_Group End_Group
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