ABOUT SATELLITE:
National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) launched Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M (TDRS-M) from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket.
SATELLITE OBJECTIVE:
The satellite is the latest spacecraft designed for the agency's constellation of communications satellites that allows nearly continuous contact with orbiting spacecrafts ranging from International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope to array scientific observatories.
ABOUT TDRS:
TDRS - Tracking and Data Relay Satellite mission was started early in 1970's comprising the segment of the Space Network. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center manages the development and operations of the TDRS satellites. The current Tracking and Data Relay Satellite configuration consists of nine in-orbit satellites distributed to provide near continuous information relay service to missions like
- The Hubble Space Telescope
- The International Space Station
TDRS SATELLITES:
The TDRS satellites consist of nine in-orbit satellites. They are
- Four First Generation Satellite
- Three Second Generation Satellite
- Two Third Generation Satellite
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