Titan II SLV | Landsat 6

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: United States Air Force (Government)
• Rocket: Titan II SLV — Titan family

Mission

The Landsat 6 satellite was a commercial program jointly with the Department of Commerce (NOAA) and EOSAT Company that provided data for a wide range of Earth resources applications including environmental monitoring, natural resource exploration, urban planning, and cartography. The Landsat 6 satellite continued the series of operational Earth resource monitoring spacecraft begun with Landsat 1 in 1972.

• Type: Earth Science
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Launch Site

• Pad: Space Launch Complex 4W
• Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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Program

• Landsat — The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA / USGS program. (Wikipedia)