Editing Landsat program (section)

== Recent and future Landsat satellites ==
[[File:L8and9-to-LandsatNext-BandComparison.png|thumb|Landsat 8/9 and Landsat Next spectral band comparison]]

[[Landsat 8]] launched on 11 February 2013. It was launched on an [[Atlas V]] 401 from [[Vandenberg Air Force Base]] by the [[Launch Services Program]]. It will continue to obtain valuable data and imagery to be used in agriculture, education, business, science, and government. The new satellite was assembled in [[Arizona]] by [[Orbital Sciences Corporation]].

[[Landsat 9]] launched on September 27, 2021. During FY2014 financial planning "appropriators chided NASA for unrealistic expectations that a Landsat 9 would cost US$1 billion, and capped spending at US$650 million" according to a report by the [[Congressional Research Service]]. [[United States Senate]] appropriators advised NASA to plan for a launch no later than 2020.<ref name="Folger"/> In April 2015, NASA and the USGS announced that work on Landsat 9 had commenced, with funding allocated for the satellite in the president's FY2016 budget, for a planned launch in 2023.<ref name="nasa.gov">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/april/nasa-usgs-begin-work-on-landsat-9-to-continue-land-imaging-legacy/|title=NASA, USGS Begin Work on Landsat 9|first=Karen |last=Northon|date=16 April 2015}}</ref> Funding for the development of a low-cost thermal infrared (TIR) free-flying satellite for launch in 2019 was also proposed, to ensure data continuity by flying in formation with Landsat 8.<ref name="nasa.gov"/>

In the future, there may also be more collaboration between Landsat satellites and other satellites with similar spatial and spectral resolution, such as the [[European Space Agency|ESA]]'s [[Sentinel 2|Sentinel-2]] constellation.<ref name="Wulder Loveland Roy Crawford 2019 pp. 127–147">{{cite journal | last1=Wulder | first1=Michael A. | last2=Loveland | first2=Thomas R. | last3=Roy | first3=David P. | last4=Crawford | first4=Christopher J. | last5=Masek | first5=Jeffrey G. | last6=Woodcock | first6=Curtis E. | last7=Allen | first7=Richard G. | last8=Anderson | first8=Martha C. | author-link8=Martha Anderson|last9=Belward | first9=Alan S. | last10=Cohen | first10=Warren B. | last11=Dwyer | first11=John | last12=Erb | first12=Angela | last13=Gao | first13=Feng | last14=Griffiths | first14=Patrick | last15=Helder | first15=Dennis | last16=Hermosilla | first16=Txomin | last17=Hipple | first17=James D. | last18=Hostert | first18=Patrick | last19=Hughes | first19=M. Joseph | last20=Huntington | first20=Justin | last21=Johnson | first21=David M. | last22=Kennedy | first22=Robert | last23=Kilic | first23=Ayse | last24=Li | first24=Zhan | last25=Lymburner | first25=Leo | last26=McCorkel | first26=Joel | last27=Pahlevan | first27=Nima | last28=Scambos | first28=Theodore A. | last29=Schaaf | first29=Crystal | last30=Schott | first30=John R. | last31=Sheng | first31=Yongwei | last32=Storey | first32=James | last33=Vermote | first33=Eric | last34=Vogelmann | first34=James | last35=White | first35=Joanne C. | last36=Wynne | first36=Randolph H. | last37=Zhu | first37=Zhe | title=Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications | journal=Remote Sensing of Environment | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=225 | year=2019 | issn=0034-4257 | doi=10.1016/j.rse.2019.02.015 | pages=127–147| bibcode=2019RSEnv.225..127W | s2cid=134722096 | hdl=10919/88790 | hdl-access=free }}</ref>

Landsat Next is planned to launch in late 2030/early 2031 and will measure 26 spectral bands; current Landsat's 8 and 9 measure 11 each.<ref>{{cite web |title=Landsat NeXt {{!}} Landsat Science |url=https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/landsat-next/ |publisher=NASA |access-date=11 March 2022 |date=30 November 2021}}</ref>
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