Landsat 9 is a partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and continues the Landsat program’s critical role of repeat global observations for monitoring, understanding, and managing Earth’s natural resources. Landsat 9, launched on September 27, 2021, at 1:12PM CST from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket. Landsat 9 carries the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI–2), built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colorado, and the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS–2), built at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. Northrop Grumman designed and fabricated the spacecraft and integrated the two instruments. OLI-2 contains below stated spectral bands:
• Band 1 Visible (0.43 - 0.45 µm) 30-m
• Band 2 Visible (0.450 - 0.51 µm) 30-m
• Band 3 Visible (0.53 - 0.59 µm) 30-m
• Band 4 Red (0.64 - 0.67 µm) 30-m
• Band 5 Near-Infrared (0.85 - 0.88 µm) 30-m
• Band 6 SWIR 1(1.57 - 1.65 µm) 30-m
• Band 7 SWIR 2 (2.11 - 2.29 µm) 30-m
• Band 8 Panchromatic (PAN) (0.50 - 0.68 µm) 15-m
• Band 9 Cirrus (1.36 - 1.38 µm) 30-m
• Band 10 TIRS 1 (10.6 - 11.19 µm) 100-m
• Band 11 TIRS 2 (11.5 - 12.51 µm) 100-m
Source: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), EarthExplorer. https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/