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Science 30 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5475, pp. 2309 - 2311
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5475.2309
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EARTH-MONITORING SATELLITES:
Will the U.S. Bring Down the Curtain on Landsat?

David Malakoff

Researchers are fawning over improved images from the new Landsat 7 satellite, the latest in a line of earth-monitoring satellites first launched in 1972. But at the same time they are also worrying that there may not be a suitable successor to the government-built spacecraft, which is scheduled to operate until 2006, at which time the government plans to turn the reins over to private industry.

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