Landsat 6

Part of the Landsat program

Landsat 6 was designed to continue the Landsat program and carried an improved suite of insturments. However, it failed to achieve orbit during launch, and forced the continued operation of the failing Landsat 4 and 5 vehicles.

Spacecraft
Structure of aluminum with graphite struts. Hydrazine propulsion system. Single solar array with 1-axis articulation produces 1430 W (BOL), Two NiCd batteries provide 100 AHr total. Data stored on-board using tape recorders for direct downlink to ground stations at 85 Mbps. 3-axis stabilized, zero momentum with control to 0.01 deg using reaction wheels.

Payload
Carried Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM) designed to provide 15 meter resolution in the panchromatic band and 30 meters resolution in the multispectral bands.

Country of Origin	United States
Customer/User	NASA, GSFC, NOAA, EOSAT
Manufacturer(s)	GE Astro Space
Size	4 meters long
Orbit	705 km circular, polar, sun-synchronous, repeating every 16 days
Design Life	5 years
Related Sites	EOSAT Home Page EOSAT Reference Page at Harvard NASA Landsat Page Jennifer Green's Landsat Page

Launch Facts

Name	Int'l Desig.	Date	Site	Vehicle	Orbit	Mass(kg)
Notes
Landsat 6	none	10/5/93	WSMC	Titan 2	FTO	1740