Landsat 7 Launch

Landsat 7, NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, launched without a hitch on April 15, 1999, at 2:32 p.m. EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

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Photographs (clockwise from left) courtesy Vandenberg AFB, Landsat 7 Project, and Robert Cahalan. Text by Emilie Lorditch.

Published April 19, 1999
Data acquired April 15, 1999