We definitely benefited from the data being made publicly available as a geology/GIS undergrad from 2008-2012. Did some guided research my junior and senior year using their database, too.
@Michael Bishop my brother, who passed away a few years ago unexpectedly at 36, once told my dad and I when we were complaining about someone or another… “guys, there are all kinds of different kinds of people out there”. Kind of went in one ear out the other at the time. But later, since he has gone, and I have happened to come across someone vastly different than I, I would think of that and just smile to myself and let folks be folks. It’s a big world.
@@oremooremo5075 I don't think so, Landsat 5 was still working at the time, which led to Landsat 5 receiving the Guinness Record for longest operational satellite. I think Landsat 5 and Landsat 6 had identical coverage, only a couple tenths of degrees of inclination difference and a slightly longer period for Landsat 6.
I don't know what the record is for the oldest operational satellite currently (I think it was covered in another video) but the amateur radio satellite AO-7 (Amsat Oscar 7 - OSCAR = Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio) was launched in 1974. It became unoperational for a while due to the batteries, but they eventually went open circuit and the satellite is now usable again provided the solar panels are in sunlight. That makes it 47 years old.
@@paulsengupta971 Contact the Guinness People. Landsat 5 is recognized as, "the longest-operating Earth-observing satellite mission in history". So maybe the OSCAR is not earth observing?
I started working with ERTS-1 data in grad school in 1973. Ended up making much of my career doing image processing and interpretation of various satellite data. The Landsat series was the best to work with. Most folks don't know that Landsat 2 was originally built as a backup for 1 in case of a launch failure. Never intended to be launched. The unbelievable success of good ol' ERTS=1 ensured that the backup would eventually fly. Landsat 3 was made up from leftover and spare parts from 1 & 2. The highest quality parts went into 1, the 2nd quality parts into 2 and floor sweepings into 3. Which is why 3 was so short lived and of lower quality data. What a wonderful time it was from the launch of 1 until I was no longer allowed to do Remote Sensing work in my career.
@@patrolman53 I was working on a 2 year assignment to R&D that ended up running for 16 years. It was during this time that I did most of my image processing, image interpretation and other R&D work with Landsat and other image data. It was finally time for that assignment to end and I had to go back to operations doing geophysics (which was the reason I was originally hired some 20 years earlier).
My grandmother bought a big, glossy picture book of landsat photos for us when we were kids in the 70's, absolutely loved it, super cool. Had no idea it was still operational.
Great summary, Scott.Only correct I might make is on the shuttle launch facility out at VAFB: it was finished, and we’ all on the Mission Control side were in our (final) simulations training for the first launch from there. All the billions had already been spent- & then a command decision was made- forced by the USAF Secretary- to not use it.
I worked on the Landsat 6 X-band data transmitter design. It was a fun and interesting project for a young microwave radio engineer. I am thankful I got to contribute to such an important program. Thanks Scott - I really enjoy your videos. This one was particularly interesting to me.
@@douglasstrother6584 Can youu share in what way they were (unusually?) fun? Sounds like there's some nice stories, and with science deliveries, secrecy requirements probably won't make you redact too much?
@@colinritchie1757 look about 10-20 degrees above the horizon to the South, it'll be fast moving with a gentle right hand curve coming from the west, I saw it about an hour ago from my camping spot near Acharacle while somehow still having signal
One of my earliest introductions to computers was in a remote sensing course using LandSat data. We used what would now be called ASCII art to printout onto white fan fold paper, using space, dot, * # @ etc for different shades, all on a VAX of some description.
My dad is actually working on the restore- L mission to service Landsat 7 which is actually now called Osam - 1 he says it is expected to launch in 2024 but they are having problems extending the arm to grab the sat.
I am considerably older than you (apparently!!!) but I remeber being able to access the landsat imagery for the first time (I also woke up at 4am when Neil and Buzz stepped out of Apollo), and was absolutely gobsmacked at the resolution and the ability to see the vegetation in one colour and other things like temperatures etc in infra red, what an amazing set of wonderful views. btw I really appreciate your channel and your concise vand accurate reporting of everything space. Thank you (Young Man- lol!)
Not at all surprised that costs went up when the program was (fortunately temporarily) privatized. Public-private partnership means public pays and private profits.
all organizing arrangements have their moral hazards to watch out for. public programs, private programs, and public-private partnerships can all be good things and can all be bad things. the people leading the effort have more to do with the outcome than the way they're organized.
@@sirmoonslosthismind All organizing arrangements do have their moral hazards, but with for-profit companies being _for profit_, they have an organizational incentive to do whatever it takes to gain control of the public sector to use it to their own benefit.
@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio all humans have an incentive to structure things for their own benefit. neither the public sector nor the private sector is actually incentivized to serve the public. we should quit arguing over pointless ideologies and address society's moral rot instead.
@@clarkkent7973 But is it really getting us space access for the same or lower cost than what we would have gotten with the government keeping more control over the process. (Of course, what we had before was not ideal either, since it extensively used private companies for building stuff under contract . . . and you know what that means.)
Quick reminder - in one month it will be the 50th anniversary of the launch of Prospero (28/10/1971) the only British satellite launched on a British rocket. To date, the UK is the only country to have developed and then abandoned a satellite launch capability.
The idea for the Yoyager program started in 65 as well although the satellites launched later than Landsat 1, must have been a good year for long lived sat programs
Gosh, Scott, you are young! I remember the first Landsat! The multi-spectral scans were used to determine vegetation and also to find minerals in the earth. I think that National Geographic published the first pictures from Landsat I.
Who would not love to have Scott Manley as a passenger in the intro rocket? For every upload from Scott, life goes from calm to interesting to exciting.
I enjoyed the way you talked about the history of all the satellites in the program, I watched the launch without really knowing anything about Landsat, made me curious and now I have the answers to all the questions I'll ever have! Thank you Scott!
Landsat (and sentinel) are just so useful. I bet there are millions of people who could use them to help their job but don't even know they exist and/or that it's free. I used to work in the Maltese environment agency, and when I showed them all these tools and offered a tutorial for basic use, loads of people got good ideas and started implementing them into what they do. One example of which was monitoring fish farms out at sea which they used to do with a boat.
well that's why you shouldn't try to commercialize government services. what they do might not be profitable, but it is critical h we need it. thx for video scott. very cool beans
Just because something helps the country to the tune of tens of billions of dollars per year does not mean there’s profit to be made by a private company.
@@scottmanley the spike in usage of Landsat data once it went free was basically a line going straight up. Better to use the data than try to earn money from it.
But the Landsat images has so many commercial uses that it really makes a perfect test for finding ways to commercialize space. In the end it failed due to poor implementation rather than the data not having the value. We're all better off with the open data of course, but prior to that decision, it made sense to see if industry could handle the process.
Landsat was probably the program that got me hooked into being a space enthusiast the most. I remember seeing beautiful landsat photos in books and magazines in early 90s (with most books from late 70s and 80s), and how they work, and what can be learned with their instruments. The tech and dedication was mind blowing to 10 years old me.
This is one of the best videos you’ve ever done. As an avid user of google maps both for travel, exploration and science I appreciate knowing this eye in the sky view will continue to improve and am now going to get into that public data to help plan for the adventures where no other data is available.
Back in the late '70s there was a Lansat story floating around Alaska about a fire that had been discovered by the satellite on one of it's first passes over the state. Basically the fire was so far out in the bush that nobody knew it happening, and that it was the size of Delaware. You can't call it an urban legend because, well, Alaska, but everybody who heard it up there was pleasantly reminded of just how big the state is.
Geography undergrad student like me really benefitted from the free data. Not only the data from the Landsat program, but also from sentinel and srtm. We often download those data, sometimes for assignment, sometimes just to try the different ways the data could be analysed using GIS softwares, messing around, basically. Back in the day, my lecturer said, research using satellite data would cost upward of two months salary here just for the data alone.
Interesting to learn the historical connection between the Landsat satellites and the TDRS satellites. It is not often mentioned, but when the Challenger exploded, it was carrying one of the early TDRS satellites. One of the reasons for the (initial) delay of the Challenger launch was an issue with that satellite.
Only 1.32M subscribers -- where is everybody ? This should be in all the schools, and the students tell their friends and their parents, and . . . Wonderful.
My father worked for USDA Grain Inspector Division from the 1950s till 1985. I remember him talking about his office being contacted to identify what was growing in certain fields in his area, South Arkansas. It turned out they were making sure that what the satellite identified in a field was actually what was growing there.
I was wondering whether the Landsat monetization program is what led to the lack of data in some areas during 1990 -1995 or was it due to the failure of landsat 6 getting into orbit?
@Scott Manley Neil Tyson, Bill Nye, and Michio Kaku are all people who have inspired me to be interested in space exploration and I put Scott Manley on that personal Mt Rushmore for me too. This guy has taught me more practical conceptual stuff about physics i can apply than most teachers I've had, and taught me how to do things in KSP I've seen only in movies. I'm going to college as mechanical and aeronautical engineer because u helped inspire me to, thanks Scott!
Having done some ground truthing Landsat images in 1982 for agriculture. The images were used to check crop health and estimate yield. This is fed into those markets that speculate on grain trade. So if crops look crook in Canada, the world price of canola goes up and you can buy a contract for a higher price to be delivered in the future. A bit like betting on the horses for farmers.
I grew up about 10 miles from the Eros date center in South Dakota. I have friends that work there and at one point applied for a job there. It's a cool place.
The weather and earth-sensing satellites have had a strange relationship. The GOES-R program had requirements that overlapped with the lower Earth orbiting satellites. The latest ones have taken ideas from the GOES-R program about the ground side for the raw data processing and ancillary issues. Of course, they have added their own improvements. That is actually the sad news because they could and should integrate similar functions for the taxpayer. As a lowly engineer on the GOES-R program, I was not in a position to cause institutional changes in either NOAA or NASA.
It was pretty typical of satellites built in the 80's and 90's to last a very long time. I used to work for Hughes. Almost all from that period still work although many have been retired due to better satellites wanting the location. One still in use is 41 years old.
Great episode. Very informative and very interesting to hear of other successful satellite programs. Would be interesting to learn more about how the advanced satellites imagery systems work. Thank you as always
Sure wish you'd do a video on NASA's abandoned MXER research (and outside related studies). The orbital tether-sling such an interesting concept. Kind of like LoTech goes super High Tech with a resulting orbital trebuchet. If it worked for Sampson, aye?
Scott, can you tell someone important, we need a vessel named "Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill"? It's the first Iain Banks name that made me laugh out loud (in "Matter"). "Don't Try This at Home" is also good, but maybe a bit on-the-nose?
Having made a detour into funding and data availability, you might have to dive into the SPOT Image program and do a compare and contrast report on the science.
You said Landsat 1 was still in orbit although dead. How many others from Landsat are still in orbit? Then you remind yourself that this is one mission and there have been many others with multiple numbers and if they are all still in orbit we have a huge problem. It's stupid we put ourselves in this mess.
We definitely benefited from the data being made publicly available as a geology/GIS undergrad from 2008-2012. Did some guided research my junior and senior year using their database, too.
Geomorphology is what brought me to the early days of satellites... small world.
@Michael Bishop it’s not but apparently you see regular stuff as gay stuff.
@Michael Bishop gay is ok
@Michael Bishop my brother, who passed away a few years ago unexpectedly at 36, once told my dad and I when we were complaining about someone or another… “guys, there are all kinds of different kinds of people out there”. Kind of went in one ear out the other at the time. But later, since he has gone, and I have happened to come across someone vastly different than I, I would think of that and just smile to myself and let folks be folks. It’s a big world.
nobody owns the rainbow. Gays don’t have monopoly on rainbows.
As a member of the Landsat 6 flight software team let me tell you there is no feeling of failure like the loss of a spacecraft. RIP Landsat 6.
Ain't that the truth....a part of your life goes on the launch.
Did it lead to loss of coverage in some areas of the world? Asking for a project.
@@oremooremo5075 I don't think so, Landsat 5 was still working at the time, which led to Landsat 5 receiving the Guinness Record for longest operational satellite. I think Landsat 5 and Landsat 6 had identical coverage, only a couple tenths of degrees of inclination difference and a slightly longer period for Landsat 6.
I don't know what the record is for the oldest operational satellite currently (I think it was covered in another video) but the amateur radio satellite AO-7 (Amsat Oscar 7 - OSCAR = Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio) was launched in 1974. It became unoperational for a while due to the batteries, but they eventually went open circuit and the satellite is now usable again provided the solar panels are in sunlight. That makes it 47 years old.
@@paulsengupta971 Contact the Guinness People. Landsat 5 is recognized as, "the longest-operating Earth-observing satellite mission in history". So maybe the OSCAR is not earth observing?
I started working with ERTS-1 data in grad school in 1973. Ended up making much of my career doing image processing and interpretation of various satellite data. The Landsat series was the best to work with. Most folks don't know that Landsat 2 was originally built as a backup for 1 in case of a launch failure. Never intended to be launched. The unbelievable success of good ol' ERTS=1 ensured that the backup would eventually fly. Landsat 3 was made up from leftover and spare parts from 1 & 2. The highest quality parts went into 1, the 2nd quality parts into 2 and floor sweepings into 3. Which is why 3 was so short lived and of lower quality data. What a wonderful time it was from the launch of 1 until I was no longer allowed to do Remote Sensing work in my career.
why were you no longer allowed, if I may ask?
@@patrolman53 I was working on a 2 year assignment to R&D that ended up running for 16 years. It was during this time that I did most of my image processing, image interpretation and other R&D work with Landsat and other image data. It was finally time for that assignment to end and I had to go back to operations doing geophysics (which was the reason I was originally hired some 20 years earlier).
My grandmother bought a big, glossy picture book of landsat photos for us when we were kids in the 70's, absolutely loved it, super cool. Had no idea it was still operational.
Yes, Landsat was big in the 70s.
Great summary, Scott.Only correct I might make is on the shuttle launch facility out at VAFB: it was finished, and we’ all on the Mission Control side were in our (final) simulations training for the first launch from there. All the billions had already been spent- & then a command decision was made- forced by the USAF Secretary- to not use it.
Yeah, the USAF used it for their autonomous craft testing eventually.
The shuttle on the Vandenberg pad also had the improved solid boosters. So close, so much money wasted.
Were you out of CSOC, STC or VAFB?
@@jonceretto5273 I was at MCC in Houston.
@@dphuntsman And I was at CSOC in Colorado Springs. SOPC ring a bell?
I worked on the Landsat 6 X-band data transmitter design. It was a fun and interesting project for a young microwave radio engineer. I am thankful I got to contribute to such an important program. Thanks Scott - I really enjoy your videos. This one was particularly interesting to me.
I worked for the company that built the X-band TWTAs for Landsat 8.
The science deliveries were always fun.
@@douglasstrother6584 Can youu share in what way they were (unusually?) fun? Sounds like there's some nice stories, and with science deliveries, secrecy requirements probably won't make you redact too much?
Yesterday, big UFO alert here in Belgium. A strange triangle thing was seen by many people. But turned out it was the new Landsat after his launch. :)
Same here in Norway too XD
I got the Centaur Rocket infront of the northernlights on video.
I will have to Upload that sometime, when i get back home.
@@theonly5001 Checked your channel, didn't see the upload :( could you @ me here if you end up uploading it?
Saw that rocket myself! Saw the retrograde burn above Scotland.
Had no idea that kind of thing was visible here!
SO that's what it was , out with the cat last night and saw it, the joys f Polar orbits, the ISS never comes this far north
@@colinritchie1757 look about 10-20 degrees above the horizon to the South, it'll be fast moving with a gentle right hand curve coming from the west, I saw it about an hour ago from my camping spot near Acharacle while somehow still having signal
@@Rybo-Senpai he didn't see what you are talking about. Were talking about a plume in space not a tiny little speck
One of my earliest introductions to computers was in a remote sensing course using LandSat data. We used what would now be called ASCII art to printout onto white fan fold paper, using space, dot, * # @ etc for different shades, all on a VAX of some description.
My dad is actually working on the restore- L mission to service Landsat 7 which is actually now called Osam - 1 he says it is expected to launch in 2024 but they are having problems extending the arm to grab the sat.
I am considerably older than you (apparently!!!) but I remeber being able to access the landsat imagery for the first time (I also woke up at 4am when Neil and Buzz stepped out of Apollo), and was absolutely gobsmacked at the resolution and the ability to see the vegetation in one colour and other things like temperatures etc in infra red, what an amazing set of wonderful views. btw I really appreciate your channel and your concise vand accurate reporting of everything space. Thank you (Young Man- lol!)
Vegetation? _On the Moon?!_ 🧐
😜
@@nagualdesign vegetation on the EARTH
@@Zeunknown1234 No shit, Sherlock.
@@nagualdesign lol
Not at all surprised that costs went up when the program was (fortunately temporarily) privatized. Public-private partnership means public pays and private profits.
all organizing arrangements have their moral hazards to watch out for. public programs, private programs, and public-private partnerships can all be good things and can all be bad things. the people leading the effort have more to do with the outcome than the way they're organized.
@@sirmoonslosthismind All organizing arrangements do have their moral hazards, but with for-profit companies being _for profit_, they have an organizational incentive to do whatever it takes to gain control of the public sector to use it to their own benefit.
@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio
all humans have an incentive to structure things for their own benefit. neither the public sector nor the private sector is actually incentivized to serve the public. we should quit arguing over pointless ideologies and address society's moral rot instead.
Seems to be working for NASA and SpaceX.
@@clarkkent7973 But is it really getting us space access for the same or lower cost than what we would have gotten with the government keeping more control over the process. (Of course, what we had before was not ideal either, since it extensively used private companies for building stuff under contract . . . and you know what that means.)
Long time viewer, just wanted to thank you for your videos - I always learn something new with each one! Best to you! 😃
My grandfather was an abstract painter, and he made some oil paintings based on ERTS and Landsat imagery. 😊
Quick reminder - in one month it will be the 50th anniversary of the launch of Prospero (28/10/1971) the only British satellite launched on a British rocket.
To date, the UK is the only country to have developed and then abandoned a satellite launch capability.
when starship goes into commercial operation, there'll be 100+ good reasons for other countries to follow the uk's lead and abandon their efforts.
@@sirmoonslosthismind monopolies are bad
Huh, it's interesting that both Landsat 6 and Mars Observer failed within months of each other both due to faulty hydrazine plumbing.
The idea for the Yoyager program started in 65 as well although the satellites launched later than Landsat 1, must have been a good year for long lived sat programs
Great episode! I did my grad school research using a good chunk of Landsat data. The whole program is a gem for earth sciences researchers.
Looking forward to see the imagery back from Landsat 9 and tinker with it´s multispectral data, so much science that can be done with that!
Gosh, Scott, you are young! I remember the first Landsat! The multi-spectral scans were used to determine vegetation and also to find minerals in the earth. I think that National Geographic published the first pictures from Landsat I.
Who would not love to have Scott Manley as a passenger in the intro rocket?
For every upload from Scott, life goes from calm to interesting to exciting.
This open data is just beautiful. I remember checking if a glacier is still covered in Snow from the Sentinel Data this Summer
I enjoyed the way you talked about the history of all the satellites in the program, I watched the launch without really knowing anything about Landsat, made me curious and now I have the answers to all the questions I'll ever have! Thank you Scott!
3:02 love those old school graphics
Landsat (and sentinel) are just so useful. I bet there are millions of people who could use them to help their job but don't even know they exist and/or that it's free.
I used to work in the Maltese environment agency, and when I showed them all these tools and offered a tutorial for basic use, loads of people got good ideas and started implementing them into what they do. One example of which was monitoring fish farms out at sea which they used to do with a boat.
well that's why you shouldn't try to commercialize government services. what they do might not be profitable, but it is critical h we need it. thx for video scott. very cool beans
It's also an impediment when users in the 3rd world have to pay for critical data.
Given that some people want to privatize the whole of NASA's operations for a long time, this is a good argument for why it isn't the best idea.
Just because something helps the country to the tune of tens of billions of dollars per year does not mean there’s profit to be made by a private company.
@@scottmanley the spike in usage of Landsat data once it went free was basically a line going straight up. Better to use the data than try to earn money from it.
But the Landsat images has so many commercial uses that it really makes a perfect test for finding ways to commercialize space. In the end it failed due to poor implementation rather than the data not having the value. We're all better off with the open data of course, but prior to that decision, it made sense to see if industry could handle the process.
Landsat was probably the program that got me hooked into being a space enthusiast the most. I remember seeing beautiful landsat photos in books and magazines in early 90s (with most books from late 70s and 80s), and how they work, and what can be learned with their instruments. The tech and dedication was mind blowing to 10 years old me.
The vastness of your knowledge about space topics is amazing.
Graphics were on point with this one. Thanks Scott!
Old fashioned machines and electronics are just so cool looking
Incredible breakdown and analysis.
Hats off as always, Scott. Thanks for going above and beyond.
This is one of the best videos you’ve ever done. As an avid user of google maps both for travel, exploration and science I appreciate knowing this eye in the sky view will continue to improve and am now going to get into that public data to help plan for the adventures where no other data is available.
Back in the late '70s there was a Lansat story floating around Alaska about a fire that had been discovered by the satellite on one of it's first passes over the state. Basically the fire was so far out in the bush that nobody knew it happening, and that it was the size of Delaware. You can't call it an urban legend because, well, Alaska, but everybody who heard it up there was pleasantly reminded of just how big the state is.
A thank you from us to you, for keeping us "in the know" when it comes to space. Appreciate you so much!
Really interesting. Keep educating us Scott.
Pretty interesting history indeed! 😃
Thanks a lot, Scott!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
The most informative and up-to-date channel on RUclips.
2103. The launch of sls 1 makes it the longest running nasa program.
What was Landsat 21 canceled?
Geography undergrad student like me really benefitted from the free data. Not only the data from the Landsat program, but also from sentinel and srtm. We often download those data, sometimes for assignment, sometimes just to try the different ways the data could be analysed using GIS softwares, messing around, basically. Back in the day, my lecturer said, research using satellite data would cost upward of two months salary here just for the data alone.
Awesome video as always Scott!
Interesting to learn the historical connection between the Landsat satellites and the TDRS satellites. It is not often mentioned, but when the Challenger exploded, it was carrying one of the early TDRS satellites. One of the reasons for the (initial) delay of the Challenger launch was an issue with that satellite.
Only 1.32M subscribers -- where is everybody ? This should be in all the schools, and the students tell their friends and their parents, and . . . Wonderful.
Fantastic....thanks for the report. I love to hear of NASA's science-satellite programs.
My father worked for USDA Grain Inspector Division from the 1950s till 1985. I remember him talking about his office being contacted to identify what was growing in certain fields in his area, South Arkansas. It turned out they were making sure that what the satellite identified in a field was actually what was growing there.
I was wondering whether the Landsat monetization program is what led to the lack of data in some areas during 1990 -1995 or was it due to the failure of landsat 6 getting into orbit?
Probably the monetization program, since you'd generally expect the satellites to be placed for complete coverage regardless of anything else.
@@absalomdraconis In some areas I only got only one very cloudy image.
Have you considered covering Canada's Radarsat series?
Awesome outro! And also awesome video about all the Landsats out there!
@Scott Manley Neil Tyson, Bill Nye, and Michio Kaku are all people who have inspired me to be interested in space exploration and I put Scott Manley on that personal Mt Rushmore for me too. This guy has taught me more practical conceptual stuff about physics i can apply than most teachers I've had, and taught me how to do things in KSP I've seen only in movies. I'm going to college as mechanical and aeronautical engineer because u helped inspire me to, thanks Scott!
Having done some ground truthing Landsat images in 1982 for agriculture. The images were used to check crop health and estimate yield. This is fed into those markets that speculate on grain trade. So if crops look crook in Canada, the world price of canola goes up and you can buy a contract for a higher price to be delivered in the future. A bit like betting on the horses for farmers.
I love earth observation satellites! And your channel, so this comment is mainly to convince the YT algo that you need more viewers.
The landsat 9 centaur upper stage and fuel dump did give some nice images from the netherlands.
Fun Fact : in the film Kong : skull island which takes place in the 70s features landsat 9.
@2:17 the Eros data center! Now thats data i can get behind, and on top of, sideways, upside down. Its all good even when its bad.
I grew up about 10 miles from the Eros date center in South Dakota. I have friends that work there and at one point applied for a job there. It's a cool place.
I appreciate that both attempts to privatize it failed miserably
Given that some people want to privatize NASA, this is a good argument for why it isn't the best idea.
I haven't seen the video yet, but isn't Planet and BlackSky doing something similar? (sadly have to pay for it)
@@freiherrvonbraun6942 Planet, BlackSky, Maxar, Airbus and a bunch of others all do commercial orbital imagery.
What an amazing program, those photos are absolutely stunning.
The weather and earth-sensing satellites have had a strange relationship. The GOES-R program had requirements that overlapped with the lower Earth orbiting satellites. The latest ones have taken ideas from the GOES-R program about the ground side for the raw data processing and ancillary issues. Of course, they have added their own improvements. That is actually the sad news because they could and should integrate similar functions for the taxpayer. As a lowly engineer on the GOES-R program, I was not in a position to cause institutional changes in either NOAA or NASA.
I'm still convinced that the patch for GOES-R should have been the Stay Puft Marshmallow man.
@@ANonymous-mo6xp I did insert a picture of Gozer the Gozerian into a slide deck for a monthly status report. 😀 It was not well received. 😛
There was vapor trails over the UK from the rocket, cool
I’m impressed that Landsat 5 had a 29 year service record.
It was pretty typical of satellites built in the 80's and 90's to last a very long time. I used to work for Hughes. Almost all from that period still work although many have been retired due to better satellites wanting the location. One still in use is 41 years old.
So instead of V'ger, it is actually Landsat that has detected the carbon unit infestation.🙂
LOL
Considering the fact that NASA is almost the only source of free space images it is great job. Thank you :)
My cousin was there watching the launch. I think he does some kind of software engineering that was used by NASA
Great episode. Very informative and very interesting to hear of other successful satellite programs. Would be interesting to learn more about how the advanced satellites imagery systems work. Thank you as always
_Hello, it's got manly here!_
Landsat, world's most expensive selfie-cam ☺
It is a massive disappointment that they didn't call it the eros program:
Earth
Resources
Observation
Satellite
Program
The USGS department that manages Landsat data is called EROS: Earth Resources Observation and Science
@@syabilazri Cue the awkward Congressional hearings on the EROS budgets.
Forsooth! I think I've got a case of the vapours.
I know a lot about this, but this is very good. Where did you do the research for this? Some good detail here. Thank you.
Maybe you should make a video on the Copernicus program
Great Video, Awesome Pictures
I had a great view on North base for all of the 4 seconds that I saw it😂
Sure wish you'd do a video on NASA's abandoned MXER research (and outside related studies). The orbital tether-sling such an interesting concept. Kind of like LoTech goes super High Tech with a resulting orbital trebuchet. If it worked for Sampson, aye?
Fascinating stuff!
Thank you Mr. Manley.
Great info! Thanks Scott :)
Old tech is really fascinating to me
You probably don't remember Telstar satalight or the song by the Tornadoes. Those were some of the best days! (You young whippersnapper 😜).
Hi Scott. Great video mate. I’d love to know who made the tape transports and a bit more on the tape machines. Fascinating !
Yay, Scott, for championing this most valuable public good!!
I'm surprised that Scott didn't mention Landsat in the movie Kong: Skull Island (2017).
5:00 - that launch mount looks kind of familiar??
Scott, can you tell someone important, we need a vessel named "Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill"?
It's the first Iain Banks name that made me laugh out loud (in "Matter"). "Don't Try This at Home" is also good, but maybe a bit on-the-nose?
A Scot Manley episode never disappoints!
great video as always
Good update
Thanks for sharing :-)
This just might be my favorite episode.
Scott Manley in an office job: "File safe."
Having made a detour into funding and data availability, you might have to dive into the SPOT Image program and do a compare and contrast report on the science.
Wow, you even experience human on the moon.. It will blow you away...
the old intro is back, YAY!
Awesome video!
Yes, a new video!
Haha I was literally looking before
Thanks for that extremely interesting subject. 🥰🤗👍
Love all your videos :)
"Multispectrum Scanner System" sounds more impressive than "Camera".
It’s telling you the type of camera
Resolution seems limited to 720p. Did RUclips start charging more for higher res or something? 😂
I thought the Landsat 6 failure was tracked to to a failure in the hydrazine manifold, at least according to the official report.
Yes, which stopped the attitude control working during AKM fire.
@@scottmanley I thought you said it was the SRM.
Thanks for making all these great videos.
How does Landsat compare to the more recent Dove program and the other satellites from that team?
I saw the booster coming back to earth, due north of my location in Hunmanby, North Yorkshire
You saw the second stage. And this launch had no boosters.
@@owensmith7530 thanks for that, didn’t know what the hell I was seeing while walking the dog!
IIRC Landsat-1 was based on the NIMBUS satellite (At least its' bus anyway).
3:16 I can literally see my house from there
You said Landsat 1 was still in orbit although dead. How many others from Landsat are still in orbit? Then you remind yourself that this is one mission and there have been many others with multiple numbers and if they are all still in orbit we have a huge problem. It's stupid we put ourselves in this mess.
They are usually moved out of the way into a stable non harzardous orbit after the mission has ended.
Another great video!
The Landsat-Data is just awesome!!! GJ US!