Tuesday, January 29, 2013

TDRS-K Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net

     TDRS-K Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net

NASA 
                                  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
                                  satellite 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 goesynchronous orbit where the spacecraft will have
                                  a wide view of Earth.

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