Missions

37 missions.

The observational record

Every mission in the catalog, launch to decommission. Amber ticks mark mid-life failures that change what the archive holds. Filter by capability to see what existed when.

modality
bands
resolution
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 landsat-1-5-mss landsat-1-5-mss: 1972-07-23 to 1992-12-31 (optical, 60m (nominal 79m x 57m)) landsat-5 landsat-5: 1984-03-01 to 2013-06-05 (optical, 30m (optical), 120m (thermal)) spot-1-5 spot-1-5: 1986-02-22 to 2015-03-31 (optical, 2.5m–20m (varies by sensor and mode)) ers-1 ers-1: 1991-07-17 to 2000-03-10 (sar, 30m (SAR)) jers-1 jers-1: 1992-02-11 to 1998-10-12 (sar, 18m (SAR)) ers-2 ers-2: 1995-04-21 to 2011-09-05 (sar, 30m (SAR)) 2001-01-15: Gyroscope failures — degraded attitude control from 20012003-06-22: Tape drive failure — thereafter only acquisitions within ground-station visibility orbview-2 orbview-2: 1997-08-01 to 2010-12-11 (optical, 1.1km (LAC), 4.5km (GAC)) landsat-7 landsat-7: 1999-04-15 to 2022-04-06 (optical, 30m (optical), 15m (pan), 60m (thermal)) 2003-05-31: Scan Line Corrector failure — ~22% of every later scene is missing terra terra: 1999-12-18 to present (optical, 250m (bands 1-2), 500m (bands 3-7), 1000m (bands 8-36)) terra-aster terra-aster: 1999-12-18 to present (optical, 15m (VNIR), 30m (SWIR), 90m (TIR)) 2008-04-01: SWIR detector failure — bands 4-9 dead in all later scenes eo-1 eo-1: 2000-11-21 to 2017-03-30 (hyperspectral, 30m) envisat envisat: 2002-03-01 to 2012-04-08 (sar, 30m (ASAR), 300m (MERIS)) aqua aqua: 2002-05-04 to present (optical, 250m (bands 1-2), 500m (bands 3-7), 1000m (bands 8-36)) maxar-worldview-2-3 maxar-worldview-2-3: 2009-10-08 to present (optical, 30cm – 50cm pan; 1.24m–1.65m multispectral) tandem-x tandem-x: 2010-06-21 to present (sar, 12m – 90m (GLO-30 / GLO-90 DEMs)) skysat skysat: 2013 to present (optical, 0.5m (pan, super-resolved); 0.5-1m multispectral) landsat-8 landsat-8: 2013-02-11 to present (optical, 30m (optical), 15m (pan), 100m (thermal)) aviris-ng aviris-ng: 2014 to present (hyperspectral, 1-20m (altitude-dependent)) planetscope-superdove planetscope-superdove: 2014 to present (optical, 3m) neon-aop neon-aop: 2014-01-01 to present (hyperspectral, 10cm (RGB) / 1m (hyperspectral) / 1m (LiDAR)) sentinel-1a sentinel-1a: 2014-04-03 to present (sar, 5m × 20m (IW SLC), 10m (GRD)) alos-2 alos-2: 2014-05-24 to present (sar, 25m (annual mosaic) / 3m–10m (spotlight/stripmap)) worldview-3 worldview-3: 2014-08-13 to present (optical, 31cm pan; 1.24m multispectral; 3.7m SWIR) sentinel-2a sentinel-2a: 2015-06-23 to present (optical, 10m (VNIR), 20m (red edge, SWIR), 60m (atmospheric)) satellogic-newsat satellogic-newsat: 2016-06-22 to present (optical, 1m (multispectral) / 30m (hyperspectral)) sentinel-2b sentinel-2b: 2017-03-07 to present (optical, 10m (VNIR), 20m (red edge, SWIR), 60m (atmospheric)) iceye-opendata iceye-opendata: 2018-01-12 to present (sar, 1m (stripmap) / 25cm (spotlight)) prisma prisma: 2019-03-22 to present (hyperspectral, 30m) capella capella: 2020-08-31 to present (sar, 50cm (spotlight); 1.2m (stripmap)) capella-opendata capella-opendata: 2020-08-31 to present (sar, 50cm (spotlight)) umbra-sar-x umbra-sar-x: 2021-07-01 to present (sar, 25cm – 1m) landsat-9 landsat-9: 2021-09-27 to present (optical, 30m (optical), 15m (pan), 100m (thermal)) enmap enmap: 2022-04-01 to present (hyperspectral, 30m) iss-emit iss-emit: 2022-07-14 to present (hyperspectral, 60m) wyvern-dragonette wyvern-dragonette: 2023-06-12 to present (hyperspectral, 5.22m – 5.26m) firefly firefly: 2024 to present (hyperspectral, 5m) constellr-skybee constellr-skybee: 2024 to present (thermal, 30m – 100m (thermal LST))
operational decommissioned failure event

alos-2

PALSAR-2 (L-band SAR)

saroperationalregistration_required

aqua

MODIS

opticaloperational (degrading)open

aviris-ng

AVIRIS-NG (Next-Generation Airborne Imaging Spectrometer)

hyperspectraloperational (campaign-based, airborne)open

capella

Capella X-band SAR

saroperationalcommercial

capella-opendata

Capella X-band SAR (open-data subset)

saroperationalopen

constellr-skybee

Constellr SkySat-class thermal IR imager

thermaloperationalopen

enmap

EnMAP VNIR-SWIR Imaging Spectrometer

hyperspectraloperationalregistration_required

envisat

ASAR (C-band) + MERIS + AATSR + 7 more instruments

sardecommissionedopen

eo-1

Hyperion imaging spectrometer

hyperspectraldecommissionedopen

ers-1

AMI (C-band SAR) + radar altimeter + ATSR-1

sardecommissionedopen

ers-2

AMI (C-band SAR) + ATSR-2 + GOME

sardecommissionedopen

firefly

Pixxel Firefly hyperspectral

hyperspectraloperationalcommercial

iceye-opendata

ICEYE X-band SAR

saroperationalopen

iss-emit

EMIT Imaging Spectrometer

hyperspectraloperationalopen

jers-1

SAR (L-band, HH) + OPS optical

sardecommissionedopen

landsat-1-5-mss

MSS (Multispectral Scanner, Landsat 1-5)

opticaldecommissionedopen

landsat-5

TM (Thematic Mapper)

opticaldecommissionedopen

landsat-7

ETM+ (Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus)

opticaldecommissionedopen

landsat-8

OLI/TIRS (Operational Land Imager / Thermal Infrared Sensor)

opticaloperationalopen

landsat-9

OLI-2/TIRS-2

opticaloperationalopen

maxar-worldview-2-3

WorldView-2/3 (VNIR + SWIR) and GeoEye-1

opticaloperationalopen

neon-aop

NEON AOP — RGB camera (10cm) + AVIRIS-NG-class spectrometer (1m) + waveform LiDAR (1m)

hyperspectraloperationalopen

orbview-2

SeaWiFS (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor)

opticaldecommissionedopen

planetscope-superdove

PS2 / PS2.SD / PSB.SD (Dove / SuperDove CubeSats)

opticaloperationalcommercial

prisma

PRISMA VNIR-SWIR Imaging Spectrometer

hyperspectraloperationalregistration_required

satellogic-newsat

Satellogic NewSat multispectral + hyperspectral

opticaloperationalopen

sentinel-1a

C-SAR (C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar)

saroperationalopen

sentinel-2a

MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument)

opticaloperationalopen

sentinel-2b

MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument)

opticaloperationalopen

skysat

SkySat optical (sub-meter tasking)

opticaloperationalcommercial

spot-1-5

HRV / HRVIR / HRG (SPOT 1–5 optical)

opticaldecommissionedopen

tandem-x

X-band SAR Interferometer (TSX-1 / TDX-1 bistatic pair)

saroperationalregistration_required

terra

MODIS

opticaloperational (degrading)open

terra-aster

ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer)

opticaloperationalopen

umbra-sar-x

Umbra X-band SAR

saroperationalopen

worldview-3

WV-3 (VNIR + SWIR + CAVIS)

opticaloperationalcommercial

wyvern-dragonette

Wyvern VNIR Hyperspectral Imaging Sensor

hyperspectraloperationalopen