White House orders NASA to build stand-alone Landsat spacecraft

NASA will work with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on developing a new Earth-observing satellite to continue the 33-year-old Landsat data set, following a White House decision to pull the mission from the faltering National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)...

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