TDRS: Continuing The Fleet
NASA is preparing to launch the next generation of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS. This latest addition to the fleet of seven will augment a space communications network that provides the critical path for high data-rate communication to the International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope, past shuttle missions and a host of other spacecraft.
It has been 10 years since NASA last launched a TDRS. This launch is the beginning of a welcome replenishment to the space network, which has served numerous national and international space missions since 1983.<p><p><p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href="/vis/a010000/a011100/a011178/TDRS_Continuing_The_FleetTranscripts.html">here</a>.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
- Chris Meaney (HTSI)
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Video editor
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (HTSI)
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Narrator
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Producer
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (HTSI)
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Project support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Writers
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (HTSI)
- Sydney Cain (ASRC Research & Technology Solutions)
- Heather LG Snodgrass
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, January 9, 2014.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM EDT.