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Landsat 5 sets Guinness World Record for longest operating EO satellite

Submit on Monday, February 11th, 2013 22:56

Landsat 5 successfully set the new Guinness World Records title for ‘Longest-operating Earth observation satellite’ as stated in an e-mail from Guinness World Records sent to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Outliving its three-year design life, Landsat 5 delivered data of Earth’s land surface for 28 years and 10 months.

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