Landsat sensor performance: history and current status

By B. Markham, J. Storey, Darrel L. Williams, J. Irons. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2004

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Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring (2008, methodology): “The Image Assessment System developed for Landsat-7 facilitates the most rigorous calibration and quality assurance of all the sensors in the Landsat series (Markham et al., 2004).”
The global Landsat archive: Status, consolidation, and direction (2016, background): “…launch some ICs switched their reception from Landsat-5 to Landsat-7 but when the Landsat-7 ETM + scan line corrector (SLC) system failed in May 2003 (Markham et al., 2004) several ICs discontinued Landsat-7 acquisitions and changed their operations back to Landsat-5 (Kovalskyy & Roy, 2013).”
Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Landsat 8 TIRS - Comparison between Radiative Transfer Equation-Based Method, Split Window Algorithm and Single Channel Method (2014, methodology): “The Landsat project provides a particular opportunity for the LST retrieval [5–7], as it has a relatively long data record period, with the launch of Landsat 3 in 1978 [8].”
Analysis Ready Data: Enabling Analysis of the Landsat Archive (2018, background): “Landsat 7 ARD may have pixels selected from the southern image if the northern image pixels in the along-track overlap were missing due to the scan line corrector failure that started on May 31st 2003 [20].”