STP98 - 50 Years Of Landsat - With Dr. Jim Irons and Dr. Jeff Masek
This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Landsat program. One of the most underrated programs in space flight. And to do this we’re joined by two Landsat scientists: Dr Jim Irons, former director of the Earth Science Division at NASA Goddard and Dr Jeff Masek, Landsat 9 project scientist since 2015.
Official Landsat website: https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/nasa_landsat
Earth As Art: https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earth-as-art
Dr Jim Irons: https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/james.r.irons
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-irons-082a0910/
Dr. Jeff Masek:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-masek-0b231810/
Emily’s Article:
Space in the Seventies: Shuttle-Landsat? A Tantalizing What-If:
https://space.nss.org/space-in-the-seventies-shuttle-landsat-a-tantalizing-what-if/
This Week’s Launches:
Thu 7th July 2022: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia: VKS RF: Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M: Cosmos 2557:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2727
No Video Available:
Thur 7th July 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-21:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6951
Mon 11th July 2022: Vandenberg SFB, California: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 3-1:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6797
Tue 12th July 2022: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 3B/E: Tianlian-2-03:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6981
No Video Available
Sat 12th July 2022: Mahia Penisula, New Zealand: Rocket Lab: Electron/Curie: Wise One Looks Ahead (NROL-162):
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6805
Wed 13th July 2022: Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana: ESA: Vega C: LARES 2, CELESTA & Others:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/413
This Week’s Other News:
Biden unveils James Webb Space Telescope's ultradeep view of the universe:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-first-photo-biden
Behold! The James Webb Space Telescope's stunning 1st science images are here:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-1st-photos
Phew! NASA's CAPSTONE moon probe phones home again:
https://www.space.com/nasa-capstone-moon-cubesat-contact-reestablished
NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat performs 2nd engine burn en route to the moon:
https://www.space.com/nasa-capstone-moon-cubesat-second-engine-burn
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collects 9th Red Planet rock sample:
https://www.space.com/nasa-perseverance-mars-rover-9th-rock-sample
Perseverance Mars rover collects its 10th rock sample:
https://www.space.com/perseverance-mars-sample-ten-collected
Fireball briefly engulfs base of SpaceX's huge Starship booster during test:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-booster-7-engine-fire
Image Credits: NASA
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Emily Carney
A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is now hosted by the National Space Society. In 2022 she started working as Content Director for Celestis – the first company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight Missions.
In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 30,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.
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Dave Giles
Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.
In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.
Full info: https://www.davejgiles.com
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