Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Landsat 7

 1999-020A


Landsat 7 was built by Lockheed Martin's LMMS/Valley Forge plant. It used the Tiros-N class bus and was similar to Landsat 6. Landsat 7 carried a single instrument, the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+). built by Raytheon/Santa Barbara. Launch of L7 was delayed in 1998 due to problems with the ETM+ power supply. 4.3m long, 2.8m dia. Launch mass 1969 kg. Launched by Delta into 10am SSO with 16-day repeat cycle. Primary archive is USGS/Eros, Sioux Falls, SD. Flight ops from GSFC until 2001 Jan. In Jan 2001, USGS assumed responsibility for the Landsat 7 FOC at GSFC and took over some functions at Sioux Falls.

The satellite makes stationkeeping burns every 40 days to keep the ground track stable.

In 2003, the ETM camera suffered a component failure causing data gaps in images, but the data was still usable.


Landsat-7 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1999 Apr 15  1832:00  Launch by Delta 7920-10  V SLC2W 
  T+1:04 SRM 1-6 burnout 
  T+1:05 SRM 7-9 burn 
  T+1:26 SRM1-3 sep 
  T+1:27 SRM4-6 sep 
  T+2:09 SRM7-9 burnout 
  T+2:11 SRM7-9 sep 
  T+4:23 MECO 
  T+4:31 Stage 1 sep 
  T+4:37 SES-1 
  T+4:41 Fairing sep
 1842:37  T+10:37 SECO-1  93.42 175 x 706 x 98.2 
 1929:20 T+57:20 SES-2 
 1929:33 T+57:33 SECO-2  98.54 676 x 701 x 98.2 
 1933:40 T+1:01:40 Stage 2 sep 
 1952:39  Solar array deployed
 1957:00  T+1:25:00 SES-3 evasive 
 1957:05 T+1:25:05 SECO-3  100.33 674 x 873 x 98.2 
 2010:20 T+1:38:20 SES-4 depletion 
 2011:17 T+1:39:17 SECO-4  184 x 710 x 107.5 
1999 Apr 22  0047  11s eng burn 
 2211  67s cal burn 
1999 Apr 27  0214  374s burn-1 
1999 Apr 30  0051  355s burn-2 
1999 Jun 1  2144  Underfly 
1999 Jun 17  2231  421s burn-3 
1999 Jun 20  0134 167s burn 4 
1999 Jun 22  0029  165s burn 5 
1999 Jun 24  0018  76s burn 6 
1999 Jun 24  0018  77s burn 7 
1999 Jun 28  0353  Final burn   
  2.5 km E of WRS path 
1999 Jul 1    98.83 702 x 703 x 98.2 1005LTDN 
2003 May 31   ETM+ partial failure 
2013 Jul 24    98.83 701 x 703 x 98.2 1007LTDN

Payload:

  • ETM+ (EOS), Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus. 0.406m telescope 8-band scanning radiometer, 185 km swath, 30m res.

    • Visible/NIR/SWIR band, 30-m res

    • Pan band, 15-m band

    • Thermal IR band, 60-m res

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