Tuesday, January 29, 2013

TDRS-K Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net


TDRS-K Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net

Enclosed in its payload fairing, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, is being lifted for placement atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41.

NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System will get an upgrade this week when the agency launches the first of a new generation of communications satellites to connect spacecraft to the ground stations that support them.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 is due to loft the TDRS-K spacecraft Wednesday, Jan. 30 on a course to geosynchronous orbit where the spacecraft will have a wide view of Earth.
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