NASA Launches Next-Generation Communications Satellite
The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Read more
Managers at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre update media on Jan. 28 about Wednesday's scheduled launch of the TDRS-K, the first of a new generation of communications satellites that will support the agency's fleet of Earth-orbiting spacecraft, including the International Space Station ad the Hubble Space Telescope.
Ed ~ A ULA Atlas 5 rocket is scheduled to launch the TDRS-K communications satellite from Cape Canaveral between 01:52 - 02:32 UT, 31st January, 2013.