LDCM Launch Updates http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/landsat/main/index.html en-us <![CDATA[Launch Earns Praise from NASA Administrator, Interior Secretary]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:29:48 GMT <![CDATA[LDCM Soars On Its Own!]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:20:33 GMT <![CDATA[Second Centaur Burn Complete]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:14:49 GMT <![CDATA[Centaur Engine Burning]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:13:03 GMT <![CDATA[Three Minutes to Centaur Re-ignition]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:09:51 GMT <![CDATA[Coast Phase]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:18:00 GMT <![CDATA[14,200 MPH and Climbing]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:15:33 GMT <![CDATA[LDCM Heading Southwest into Orbit]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:10:24 GMT <![CDATA[Payload Fairing Jettisoned]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:07:51 GMT <![CDATA[Second Stage Ignition]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:06:17 GMT <![CDATA[First Stage Working Well]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:03:08 GMT <![CDATA[LIFTOFF!]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:02:05 GMT <![CDATA[Atlas V on Internal Power]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:00:42 GMT <![CDATA[Countdown Resumes for On-Time Launch]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:58:05 GMT <![CDATA[Go for Launch]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:56:37 GMT <![CDATA[LDCM Spacecraft on Internal Power]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:53:27 GMT <![CDATA[T-4 minutes and Holding]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:49:33 GMT <![CDATA[Atlas, Centaur Tanks Filled]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:47:59 GMT <![CDATA[Final Built-in Hold Coming Up]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:43:48 GMT <![CDATA[The Landsats before LDCM]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:10:20 GMT <![CDATA[One Hour Before Launch]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:03:48 GMT <![CDATA[Liquid Hydrogen Chilldown Begins for Centaur]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:43:31 GMT <![CDATA[Centaur's Story]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:17:26 GMT <![CDATA[Centaur LO2 Tanking Begins]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:11:33 GMT <![CDATA[Tanking Operations Begin]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:07:12 GMT <![CDATA[Go for Cryo Tanking]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:49:49 GMT <![CDATA[NASA's Second Launch of 2013]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:36:26 GMT <![CDATA[Weather Clear Today Over Vandenberg]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:25:56 GMT <![CDATA[Welcome to LDCM Launch Day!]]>
This time, the spacecraft is the latest Landsat Earth observation satellite designed to carry on a four-decade mission of watching how the planet is changing and how its resources are being used. It will be renamed Landsat 8 when it becomes operational. We will go into some detail about the advanced abilities of the LDCM's sensors as NASA's Launch Blog unfolds.]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:15:08 GMT <![CDATA[Gantry Pulled Back to Reveal Atlas V Rocket]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:19:42 GMT <![CDATA[LDCM Launch Blog Begins Monday, Feb. 11]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:38:19 GMT