By Mike Killian, on January 26th, 2014 The rotation of the Earth captured in the trails of the stars over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station last Thursday night. NASA’s latest Tracking & Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-L, is seen here hitching a fiery ride to orbit atop an Atlas-V rocket, as viewed from the Turn Basin on Kennedy Space Center just […]
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By Ben Evans, on January 24th, 2014 Awe-inspiring perspective of Earth’s rotation, captured in the trail of stars over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during Thursday night’s launch of TDRS-L. Photo Credit: Mike Killian Photography/AmericaSpace
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully accomplished the first of what it hopes will be a record-setting 15 missions for 2014, with the spectacular liftoff […]
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By Mike Killian, on January 23rd, 2014 Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace
The weather in Florida today is beautiful but chilly, and all systems are GO for United Launch Alliance to attempt launching NASA’s next Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-L, or TDRS-L, atop an Atlas-V rocket this evening from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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By Ben Evans, on January 22nd, 2014 Pictured in Astrotech’s payload processing facility on 3 January 2014, TDRS-L resembles an enormous insect and will form the 12th member of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite family. Photo Credit: Mike Killian Photography/AmericaSpace
With weather conditions at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station expected to be 80 percent favorable, United Launch Alliance (ULA) […]
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By Ben Evans, on January 14th, 2014 Pictured in the pre-dawn darkness of Monday, 13 January, during rollout from Astrotech’s payload processing facility to SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the TDRS-L payload shroud is emblazoned with the mission logos. Photo Credit: Jacques van Oene/AmericaSpace
More than 30 years since its maiden launch, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite […]
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By Ben Evans, on December 11th, 2013 Like an oversized insect, TDRS-L is visually quite distinct from its cousins of the shuttle-launched first generation of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites. Photo Credit: NASA
NASA’s 12th Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) will shortly begin final processing at the Kennedy Space Center, following its delivery last week to Florida aboard a […]
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By Press Release, on August 22nd, 2013 Photo Credit: Jason Rhian / AmericaSpace
Two Boeing Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) have completed testing milestones – one in space and the other on Earth – marking more progress in enhancing the tracking and communications network used by NASA and its customers.
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By Ben Evans, on January 24th, 2013 Not for nothing is TDRS-K’s objective described as “Fleet Replenishment.” This satellite is the first of its kind to be launched in more than a decade and will support voice and data communications traffic between the ground and low-Earth orbit until the middle of the next decade. Image Credit: AmericaSpace/Nathan Moeller
The launch […]
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By Jason Rhian, on December 19th, 2012 The TDRS-K satellite is offloaded from a United States Air Force C-17 aircraft. The satellite arrived in preparation for a planned Jan. 29 launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Photo Credit: NASA / Kim Shiflett
The next of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) is at Kennedy Space Center […]
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