Landsat 1 (LS-1), formerly named ERTS-A and ERTS-1, was the first satellite of the United States' Landsat program. It was a modified version of the Nimbus 4 meteorological satellite …

Explore the first Landsat images from space. Aboard a Delta 900 rocket, NASA’s Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) launched July 23, 1972, from Vandenburg Air Force Base in …

Landsat 1 was launched on July 23, 1972; at that time the satellite was known as the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS). It was the first Earth-observing satellite to be …

Mar 14, 2022 · Learn more about Landsat 1. See first light images, significant events, and unique science. A long string of Earth-observing orbiters began with NASA's Earth Resources …

The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA / USGS program. On 23 July 1972, the Earth Resources Technology …

Remarkably, within only two years, Landsat 1 was launched, heralding a new age of remote sensing of land from space. What to know more about Landsat’s history, see Landsat’s …

Sep 27, 2021 · On July 23, 1972, the first Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-1), later renamed Landsat 1, was launched. After more than five decades of observations and eight …

Feb 20, 2024 · Landsat-1 gave us images of Earth like never before. Fifty years ago, humanity gained a powerful new tool to study our home planet.

May 31, 2012 · The NASA LS-1 (Landsat-1) spacecraft was a modified version of Nimbus-4 bus (built by General Electric), a three-axis stabilized Earth-oriented platform. An advanced …

Landsat 1 was decommissioned in 1978 after collecting over 162,000 images of the Earth’s surface. Visit the full Landsat 1 page on the Landsat Missions website. Sources/Usage: Public …