The Landsat Program
The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
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How Do You Decommission a Satellite?
A satellite has to be orbited within a certain amount of time so that it doesn't become a hazard to people on the ground. It takes a lot of fuel to gash o get it out past er orbit. So we got the landset program, building the satellites to help sort of further scientific work here here on earth. You build and test these satellites here on earth, you shoot them off into space, and then you start collecting the data.
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