ULA's Atlas V 401 launched NASA's Landsat 9 Earth-observation satellite from Vandenberg into a near-polar sun-synchronous orbit. Landsat 9 extends the 49-year Landsat land-imaging record with the Operational Land Imager 2 and Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 instruments.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 39th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 27 September 2021, 18:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2021-088
- Launches in 2021
- 96th of 146
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