Thursday, January 24, 2013

TDRS-K Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net


TDRS-K Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net

The TDRS-K spacecraft stands inside a processing hangar in Titusville, Fla., awaiting packaging for launch into orbit 22,300 miles above Earth.

NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System will get an upgrade this month 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 Jan. 30 on a course to geosynchronous orbit where the spacecraft will have a wide view of Earth.

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