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Paris in false colour, the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes reading as two dark red lobes either side of the city, with the Seine crossing from southeast to northwest.

Mission archive

Every mission ends as a file.

Reference frames from the public Landsat archive, composed exactly the way a customer frame is composed — the same plate, the same mission sheet, the same credit.

PARIS · ÎLE-DE-FRANCE48.8566, 2.352213 files on record

Selected frames

Six places, six passes, one archive.

Open any of them and the whole file opens with it: the capture, the observation, the pass geometry and the print it would become.

São Paulo filling the frame outward from the Tietê valley, one of the largest continuous urban areas in the southern hemisphere. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.São Paulo35NF — 18.04.2010The bulb fields around Lisse in flower, laid out as narrow coloured strips on the reclaimed sand between Haarlem and Leiden. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.Lisse84VN — 21.04.2018Las Vegas spread across the floor of the Mojave, the valley ending in a hard line where irrigated development meets bare desert. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.Las Vegas31AN — 2023The Thames estuary opening into the North Sea, sediment plumes fanning off the Essex and Kent shores. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.Thames Estuary78UN — 28.04.2013Rio de Janeiro built into the gaps between granite massifs, with Guanabara Bay opening north and the lagoons and beaches of the Zona Sul along the Atlantic edge. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.Rio de Janeiro21GX — 09.05.2011Samarkand on the Zarafshan river, where irrigation draws a green corridor through dry loess country. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.Samarkand75TE — 25.10.2015

Overhead now

Eight imaging satellites, and where they are this second.

Live orbital elements, propagated in your browser. These are not the satellites assigned to your mission — tasking is brokered at capture time and the spacecraft is very often none of these. They are simply what is up there, and where.

  • WorldView-3

    Maxar · NORAD 40115

    Sub-point
    35.10° N 48.09° E
    Altitude
    618 km
    Speed
    7.55 km/s
    Inclination
    97.85°
    Period
    97.0 min
    Resolution
    31 cm panchromatic

    Sub-metre optical imager. The sharpest commercial optical sensor in orbit.
    Commercial tasking · elements 13.1 h old

  • Pléiades Neo 3

    Airbus · NORAD 48268

    Sub-point
    57.83° S 139.12° W
    Altitude
    647 km
    Speed
    7.53 km/s
    Inclination
    97.89°
    Period
    97.2 min
    Resolution
    30 cm panchromatic

    Very-high-resolution optical imager, tasked in short revisit windows.
    Commercial tasking · elements 12.4 h old

  • Cartosat-3

    ISRO · NORAD 44804

    Sub-point
    77.23° S 174.49° W
    Altitude
    545 km
    Speed
    7.58 km/s
    Inclination
    97.42°
    Period
    94.8 min
    Resolution
    25 cm panchromatic

    High-resolution cartographic imager.
    Commercial tasking · elements 12.2 h old

  • GeoEye-1

    Maxar · NORAD 33331

    Sub-point
    9.19° S 128.35° W
    Altitude
    686 km
    Speed
    7.51 km/s
    Inclination
    98.12°
    Period
    98.3 min
    Resolution
    41 cm panchromatic

    Long-serving sub-metre optical imager.
    Commercial tasking · elements 12.3 h old

  • SkySat-C11

    Planet · NORAD 42987

    Sub-point
    41.54° N 128.77° E
    Altitude
    380 km
    Speed
    7.69 km/s
    Inclination
    97.45°
    Period
    92.0 min
    Resolution
    50 cm panchromatic

    One of a smallsat constellation flown for rapid revisit.
    Commercial tasking · elements 14.0 h old

  • Landsat 9

    NASA / USGS · NORAD 49260

    Sub-point
    63.66° S 147.71° W
    Altitude
    728 km
    Speed
    7.49 km/s
    Inclination
    98.22°
    Period
    98.8 min
    Resolution
    15 m panchromatic

    Open Earth-observation record. The example frames on this site are Landsat.
    Open data · elements 14.3 h old

  • Sentinel-2C

    ESA Copernicus · NORAD 60989

    Sub-point
    39.93° N 46.35° E
    Altitude
    794 km
    Speed
    7.46 km/s
    Inclination
    98.57°
    Period
    100.6 min
    Resolution
    10 m multispectral

    Open multispectral survey on a five-day global revisit.
    Open data · elements 15.3 h old

  • Terra

    NASA · NORAD 25994

    Sub-point
    50.74° N 145.07° W
    Altitude
    696 km
    Speed
    7.51 km/s
    Inclination
    97.93°
    Period
    98.6 min
    Resolution
    15 m (ASTER VNIR)

    Flying since 1999. The long baseline every newer sensor is compared against.
    Open data · elements 11.8 h old

Orbital elements published by Orbital elements, fetched directly and refreshed every three hours. Positions are SGP4 propagations of those elements, computed in your browser, not telemetry: no one is downlinking to this page. The oldest element set shown was fitted 15.3 h ago, and accuracy degrades as that age grows.

Archive index

Open one and you are reading the whole file.

Coordinates, sensor, pass geometry, cloud cover at capture, the written observation and the source it came from. Every file is composed the way a customer’s own frame is composed. The only thing missing is your address.

Files on record
13
Countries
10
Resolution
30 m GSD
Capture window
31.07.1986 — 2023
Source
NASA / USGS Landsat
Classification
Declassified
Region
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13 of 13 files
Las Vegas spread across the floor of the Mojave, the valley ending in a hard line where irrigated development meets bare desert. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.

Most recent capture

31AN2023

Las Vegas, United States

Las Vegas spread across the floor of the Mojave, the valley ending in a hard line where irrigated development meets bare desert. The Strip runs as a straight bright axis through the middle of the basin, and Lake Mead sits off the eastern edge of the built area.

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Filed under Americas

Earlier captures

The Cape Peninsula reaching south from Table Mountain, with False Bay to the east.

Cape Town — filed under Africa

DATE NOT STATED

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