Objectives and Applications
5-year mission design life with at least 10 years of consumables. Earth resources, land surface, environmental monitoring, agriculture and forestry, disaster monitoring and assessment, ice and snow cover.
Full Name
Landsat 9
aka L9, Landsat-9
Mission Status
Operational (nominal)
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
27 Sep 2021
Mission Links
EOL Date
Sep 2031
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
98.9 minutes
Orbit Sense
Descending
Orbit Inclination
98.2 deg
Orbit Altitude
705 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
10:11
Repeat Cycle
16 days
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
OLI-2 - Operational Land Imager 2 |
| TIRS-2 - Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 |
| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature | OLI-2, TIRS-2 |
| Radiation budget | OLI-2, TIRS-2 |
| Land | Albedo and reflectance | OLI-2, TIRS-2 |
| Vegetation | OLI-2, TIRS-2 |
| Surface temperature (land) | OLI-2, TIRS-2 |
| Multi-purpose imagery (land) | OLI-2, TIRS-2 |
| Inland Waters | OLI-2, TIRS-2 |
| Ocean | Ocean colour/biology | OLI-2 |
| Ocean topography/currents | OLI-2 |
| Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) | OLI-2 |
| Snow & Ice | Snow cover, edge and depth | OLI-2, TIRS-2 |
| Sea ice cover, edge and thickness | OLI-2, TIRS-2 |
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