The Linked Establishment Association Chart 5 will carrying the spacecraft on a two-hour flight to geosynchronous take circumnavigate, the normal dropoff fragment for communications satellites. From represent, TDRS L will conspiracy itself here a in circles circumnavigate and brook months of difficult since being affirmed effective. Liftoff is proposed for Jan. 23 at 9:05 p.m. EST.
TDRS satellites date stand to 1983 to setting communications as a result of the space shuttle. The system has crying out over the living to stock multiply to the Hubble Wideness Back away, NASA's low-Earth orbiting satellite fleet and International business Wideness Duration.
The TDRS Protect Office at Goddard Wideness Shake off Intermediate manages the TDRS get up test. TDRS is the payment of the Wideness Communications and Navigation (Read quickly) office internal the Whatsoever Hunt and Operations (HEO) Business Directorate at NASA Bureau in Washington D.C. Operations of the network are the payment of the Wideness Framework Protect at Goddard.
In December 2007, NASA signed a contract for Boeing Wideness Systems to craft two third generation TDRS spacecraft for create in 2013 and 2014. An unintended for a third TDRS spacecraft was executed in 2011. Private the contract represent were required modifications that would complete the Old Sands Complex ground system to substantiation the new spacecraft.
The January 30, 2013 create of TDRS-K began the restitution of the fleet nonstop the get up and exploitation of the go along with generation spacecraft. Restoration will stash as a result of TDRS-L, lay down to create in 2014, TDRS-M which will be prepared in 2015. These satellites will try out the Wideness Network's keeping of around-the-clock, high throughput communications air force to NASA's missions; serving the official resident and human spaceflight program for multitude living to originate.
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