American Earth-observing satellite launched in 1984 as part of the Landsat program
Landsat 5
Artist's rendering of Landsat 5.
Mission type
Earth imaging
Operator
NASA / NOAA
COSPAR ID
1984-021A
SATCAT no.
14780
Mission duration
29 years, 3 months and 4 days
Spacecraft properties
Bus
Multimission Modular Spacecraft
Manufacturer
Fairchild Industries
Launch mass
1,938 kilograms (4,273 lb)
Dry mass
1,407 kilograms (3,102 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date
1 March 1984 (1984-03)
Rocket
Delta 3920
Launch site
Vandenberg SLC-2W
End of mission
Disposal
Placed in graveyard orbit
Deactivated
5 June 2013 (2013-06-06)
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric
Regime
Sun-synchronous
Perigee altitude
694 kilometers (431 mi)
Apogee altitude
701 kilometers (436 mi)
Inclination
98.2 degrees
Period
98.72 minutes
Repeat interval
16 days
Epoch
1 April 1984[1]
Landsat 5 was a low Earth orbit satellite launched on March 1, 1984, to collect imagery of the surface of Earth. A continuation of the Landsat Program, Landsat 5 was jointly managed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Data from Landsat 5 was collected and distributed from the USGS's Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS).
After 29 years in space, Landsat 5 was officially decommissioned on June 5, 2013.[2] Near the end of its mission, Landsat 5's use was hampered by equipment failures, and it was largely superseded by Landsat 7 and Landsat 8.[2] Mission scientists anticipated the satellite will re-enter Earth's atmosphere and disintegrate around 2034.[2]
Recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest-operating Earth-observing satellite mission in history, Landsat 5 orbited the planet more than 150,000 times while transmitting more than 2.5 million images of land surface conditions around the world, greatly outliving its original three-year design life.[3]
^McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
^ abcHistoric Landsat 5 Mission Ends
^"Historic Landsat 5 Mission Ends". NASA. June 24, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
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