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Landsat 8 Launch

SDPB | By Steve Zwemke
Published January 4, 2013 at 1:59 PM CST
Cara Hetland

New EROS Director Frank Kelly discussed the scheduled launch of Landsat 8 on February 11.  The Landsat spacecraft series in the longest continuous Earth imaging program in history (Landsat 1 was launched in 1972). 
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