When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket carrying NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-K ...

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NASA and Boeing are reviewing the status of the TDRS-M launch date following an incident relating to an antenna during the spacecraft’s final launch processing to launch. The spacecraft’s launch atop ...

WASHINGTON — Despite another reminder from its inspector general that the agency’s space communications network is heading for a bandwidth logjam in 2016, NASA is not rushing to procure more of the ...

NASA’s first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS), launched in April 1983 aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger’s maiden voyage, was shut down June 27, marking the end of its 27 years of service.

More than 50 years ago, at the dawn of human spaceflight, the first brave astronauts were only able to communicate with mission control operators on Earth for about 15 percent of each orbit. If this ...

When it comes to satellite launches, NASA loves to get things rolling as soon as they can, but perhaps their giddiness to launch Boeing’s TDRS-M communications satellite by August 3 rd cost them a ...

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Launch delays are sometimes part of the equation in determining when specific missions launch in relation to each other. Sometimes, those delays occur to missions for the same agency, as is now the ...

NASA's TDRS-L satellite launch will begin at 9:05 p.m. EST with live stream coverage beginning at 6:30 p.m. EST. NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis NASA's new communications satellite, the Tracking and Data ...