NASA | TIRS Over Time

The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is one of the instruments on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. It will continue the archive of thermal imaging and support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate measurements for water management. TIRS is being built by NASA GSFC and has a three-year design life. This timelapse shows the 92 hours during which TIRS was cleaned, bagged, and packed to ship to Orbital Sciences Corporation in Arizona, where it will be integrated with the spacecraft.



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[AntiProtonBoy]

Love how the safety exclusion tape was drawn out and yet everyone was inside it! :D

[TheUltimateRage]

Can't wait to see this bad boy in action! Let's do it to it y'all!!!

[darkcoeficient]

I met people who were working on THIS! And worked on icesat and many others! NASA FTW!

[AntiProtonBoy]

@Shift4chizzle - i know, i know, it was just amusing to see

[daftrhetoric]

Press the mute button and watch the lego magic unfold.

[ChazZen]

@AntiProtonBoy its the same concept as the crime scene tapes, how do u expect the police to solve a crime outside the tape???