Future
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), scheduled to be launched February 2013, will be the next satellite in the Landsat series. It is being launched on an Atlas V 401 from Vandenberg Air Force Base by the Launch Services Program. It will continue to obtain valuable data and imagery to be used in agriculture, education, business, science, and government. The new satellite is being assembled in Arizona by Orbital Sciences Corporation.
Overview of the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS), one of the instruments on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). A timelapse of the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) being cleaned, bagged, and packed to ship to Orbital Sciences Corp, where TIRS will be integrated with the spacecraft.Read more about this topic: Landsat Program
Famous quotes containing the word future:
“I would sell my life to avoid
the pain that begins in the crib
with its bars or perhaps
with your first breath
when the planets drill
your future into you....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.”
—Abigail Adams (1744–1818)
“And all your future lies beneath your hat.”
—John Oldham (1653–1683)