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• NASA is in charge of building and launching the satellite before turning over operation to the USGS, though NASA also uses Landsat data for science.
• Long-term plans call for another orbiter to be launched before the end of Landsat 8's run.
• "Hopefully we'll be able to continue with the next mission after that that will extend it even further," Sabers said.
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Red meat production up in South Dakota
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture says commercial red meat production in South Dakota totaled 85.8 million pounds during August.
• The figure is up 3 percent from a year ago and up 21 percent from July.
• Commercial hog slaughter for South Dakota totaled 390,900 head during August, compared to 382,900 head the year before. The average live weight was 263 pounds, up 6 pounds from a year earlier.
• Commercial sheep and lamb slaughter for South Dakota remained unchanged in August from last year at 300 head. Average live weight was 119 pounds, up 2 pounds from August 2011.
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Summit League axes acronyms to showcase big cities
DAVE KOLPACK,Associated Press
• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- An NCAA Division I conference composed of mostly Midwest teams has decided that alphabet soup isn't terribly appealing.
• The Summit League chose this school year to refer to three of its teams by the university's last name in standings and media releases, in part to highlight the conference's metropolitan areas and to make the schools more recognizable nationally. Some schools want to make the changes permanent.
• League officials will call the University of Nebraska-Omaha simply Omaha, the University of Missouri-Kansas City as Kansas City and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne as Fort Wayne.
• No more UNO, UMKC and IPFW -- at first glance, anyway.
• "It's one thing if you're UCLA," said league consultant Jeff Orleans, who worked on the new branding plan. "But no one else can or needs to do that."
• The nine-team Summit League includes Omaha, Kansas City, Fort Wayne, North Dakota State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, Oakland, Western Illinois and the lone tongue-twisting holdout, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, or IUPUI.
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