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Successful launch of communications satellite TDRS-L (VIDEO)

Cape Canaveral, USA - The spacecraft will be tested for more than three months before its entry into service

American space agency NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite L (TDRS-L) is safely in orbit after launching at 9:33 pm EST Thursday (2:33 am on Friday GMT/UTC) aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Ground controllers report the satellite, part of a network providing high-data-rate communications to, among others, the International Space...

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Rome, Italy, 01/24/2014 14:54
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