Landsat 7
Landsat 7 launched on April 15, 1999 with the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus, adding 15 m panchromatic imagery to multispectral land observations. Its scan-line corrector failed on May 31, 2003, leaving gaps in subsequent scenes while retaining useful radiometric measurements. After leaving its nominal 705 km orbit in 2022, it continued an extended science mission at lower altitude. Science imaging ended on January 19, 2024; formal decommissioning followed on June 4, 2025. The archived imagery remains useful for long-term land-change studies when these sampling changes are considered.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Landsat ETM+Enhanced Thematic Mapper PlusLandsat VII
- Name
- Landsat 7
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- Landsat 7 launched on April 15, 1999 with the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus, adding 15 m panchromatic imagery to multispectral land observations. Its scan-line corrector failed on May 31, 2003, leaving gaps in subsequent scenes while retaining useful radiometric measurements. After leaving its nominal 705 km orbit in 2022, it continued an extended science mission at lower altitude. Science imaging ended on January 19, 2024; formal decommissioning followed on June 4, 2025. The archived imagery remains useful for long-term land-change studies when these sampling changes are considered.
- Destination
- Earth observation from a near-polar, sun-synchronous orbit; nominal 705 km science orbit followed by a lower-orbit extended mission from 2022
- End Date
- 2025-06-04
- Launch Site
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- Start Date
- 1999-04-15
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Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/landsat-7/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 14, 2026 at 22:16:16 UTC
- Updated Time
- October 29, 2026 at 15:14:04 UTC
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