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NASA: successful launch for the next-generation communication satellite TDRS-K (VIDEO)

Cape Canaveral, USA - The TDRS system provides tracking, telemetry, command and high-bandwidth data return services

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 (1:58 am of Thursday UTC) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The TDRS system provides tracking, telemetry, command and high-bandwidth data return services for numerous science and human exploration missions orbiting Earth. These include the International...

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Rome, Italy, 01/31/2013 17:19
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