Sejarah Satelit Landsat 3

Landsat 3 History

March 5, 1978 – March 31, 1983

Figure 1. Landsat 3

Participants

• NASA
• Department of the Interior (DOI) U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
• Manufacturer: General Electric (GE) Astrospace

Launch

• Date: March 5, 1978
• Vehicle: Delta 2910
• Launched by: NASA
• Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

Spacecraft

• Weight: approximately 953 kg (2,100 lbs)
• Overall height: 3 m (10 ft)
• Diameter: 1.5 m (5 ft)
• Solar array paddles extend out to a total of 4 m (13 ft)
• 3-axis stabilized using 4 wheels to +/-0.7° attitude control
• Twin solar array paddles (single-axis articulation)
• S-Band and Very High Frequency (VHF) communications
• Hydrazine propulsion system with 3 thrusters

Communications

• Direct downlink from 2, 30 minute wide-band video tape recorders
• Data rate: 15 Mbps
• Quantization: 6 bit (64 levels)

Orbit

• Worldwide Reference System-1 (WRS-1) path/row system
• Sun-synchronous, near-polar orbit at an altitude of 917 km (570 mi)
• Inclined at 99.1°
• Circled the Earth every 103 minutes
• Completed 14 orbits a day
• Repeat cycle: 18 days
• Swath width: 185 km (115 mi)
• Equatorial crossing time: 9:30 a.m. +/- 15 minutes
• Swath overlap (or sidelap) varied from 14 percent at the Equator to a maximum of approximately 85 percent at 81° north or south latitude

Sensors
Return Beam Vidicon (RBV)

• The RBV system on Landsat 3 used two cameras, mounted side-by-side, with panchromatic spectral response and higher spatial resolution (40 m) to complement the multispectral coverage provided by the Multispectral Scanner (MSS). Each of the cameras produced a swath of about 90 km (for a total swath of 180 km).
• 40 m resolution from 2, 80 m resolution cameras
• Two cameras with a panchromatic spectral response
• Data: 3.5 MHz video

Multispectral Scanner (MSS)

• Five spectral bands, including a thermal band:
• Band 4 Visible (0.5 to 0.6 µm)
• Band 5 Visible (0.6 to 0.7 µm)
• Band 6 Near-Infrared (0.7 to 0.8 µm)
• Band 7 Near-Infrared (0.8 to 1.1 µm)
• Band 8 Thermal (10.4 to 12.6 µm)
• Data: 100 kHz digital
• Six detectors for each reflective band provided six scan lines on each active scan
• Ground Sampling Interval (pixel size): 57 x 79 m

Other Characteristics

• Scene size: 170 km x 185 km (106 mi x 115 mi)
• Originally designated Landsat 3; also known as Landsat C
• Design Life: Minimum of 1 year

Sumber :
http://landsat.usgs.gov/about_landsat3.php