Atlas V 401 launched Landsat 8 (originally the Landsat Data Continuity Mission) from Vandenberg into sun-synchronous orbit, extending NASA and USGS's decades-long Earth-imaging record with the Operational Land Imager and Thermal Infrared Sensor instruments.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 16th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 11 February 2013, 18:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2013-008
- Launches in 2013
- 9th of 81
See it in orbit
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Object pages on Space Atlas: Landsat 8
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