NASA’s TDRS-M satellite this week reached its high-altitude perch in Geosynchronous Orbit and completed all major deployment events on its solar arrays and antennas in preparation for a multi-month commissioning phase before entering an active role within the agency’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.
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The rumble of an Atlas V rocket returned to Cape Canaveral on Friday after a four-month gap when ULA’s workhorse rocket blasted off with a critical reinforcement for NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, providing extension coverage to maintain the agency’s prime space communications program.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket lifted of from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 12:29 UTC on August 18, 2017, carrying into orbit NASA’s TDRS-M satellite
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket lifted of from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 12:29 UTC on August 18, 2017, carrying into orbit NASA’s TDRS-M satellite,
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A reinforcement for NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System stands ready for liftoff atop an Atlas V rocket on Friday to join the critical communications system used by the agency to keep in contact with Astronauts aboard the International Space Station, beam down images from the Hubble Space Telescope and relay data to and from critical Earth-observation satellites
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolls from its assembly facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 15, 2017 –
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NASA TDRS-M satellites is encapsulated in its protective four-meter payload fairing and transported from the Astrotech Processing Facility in Titusville over to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41
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The launch date of NASA’s TDRS-M communications satellite was called into question on Friday when the 3,450-Kilogram satellite suffered possible damage to one of its critical antennas during final processing work in preparation for launch
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NASA’s TDRS-M Tracking and Data Relay Satellite undergoes final processing operations at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Florida in preparation for its trip over to Cape Canaveral
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is assembled at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 for the launch of NASA’s TDRS-M communications satellite in August 2017.
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NASA’s TDRS-M Tracking and Data Relay Satellite arrives at the Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville via U.S. Air Force cargo aircraft to enter its final processing campaign
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The Delta Mariner arrives at Cape Canaveral with the Atlas V launch vehicle – the Common Core Booster first stage and Centaur upper stage – for the TDRS-M mission in August 2017.
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