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Ball Aerospace Completes Review for Landsat Operational Land Imager

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[Satellite Today 11-25-08] Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has finished the instrument critical design review for the Operational Land Imager instrument for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, the company announced Nov. 25.
    The instrument is designed to capture 15-meter black-and-white and 30-meter images of Earth. The 185-kilometer swath will allow the entire globe to be imaged every 16 days.
    NASA in April awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems Inc. a $116.3 million contract to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft, the eighth in the Landsat series of satellite.

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