Size Duel deck / Ships, aircraft and spacecraft
Landsat 2
Mass: satellite at launch
about 953 kg (2,101 lb)
An Earth-observation satellite launched in 1975.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-21: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“953 kg”U.S. Geological Survey: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
“953 kg”Gunter Dirk Krebs / Gunter's Space Page: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
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