A tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS) is a type of communications satellite that forms part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS)...
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Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS, pronounced "T-driss") is a network of American communications satellites (each called a tracking and...
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that of the US Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. The first generation of satellites was created by NPO-PM using the satellite platform KAUR-4...
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The European Data Relay System (EDRS) system is a European constellation of GEO satellites that relay information and data between satellites, spacecraft...
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Indian Data Relay Satellite System or IDRSS is a planned Indian constellation of Inter-satellite communications satellites. It is planned to initially...
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Early versions are believed to have used the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) to relay imagery to a ground station at White Sands, New...
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Judith Love Cohen (section Early life and education)
science ground station for the Hubble Space Telescope, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, and the Apollo Space Program. In particular, her work on the...
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in the early 1980s, as the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRS), took over most of the work of tracking satellites in low Earth orbit. Another...
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Manned Space Flight Network (redirect from Manned Space Flight Tracking Network)
Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) for tracking satellites in low Earth orbit, and the Deep Space Network (DSN) for tracking more distant...
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STS-70 (section Preparations and launch)
flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and the last of 7 shuttle missions to carry a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS). This was the first shuttle...
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Space Network (redirect from Network Control Center Data System)
of: The geosynchronous Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), Supporting ground terminal systems, The Bilateration Ranging and Transponder System (BRTS)...
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Goddard Space Flight Center (category Buildings and structures in Prince George's County, Maryland)
the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRS), Fermi, and Swift. Past...
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of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites. TDRS spacecraft are all in geostationary orbit and are operated by the United States National Aeronautics and Space...
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blackout. The TDRSS allowed the Shuttle to communicate by relay with a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite during re-entry, through a "hole" in the ionized air...
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TDRS-11 (category Communications satellite stubs)
communications satellite which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. The eleventh Tracking and Data Relay Satellite is the...
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via the Regul system and the NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. Additional Luch satellites were launched between 2011 and 2014 but the system...
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Center on April 4, 1983, the mission deployed the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1, into orbit, before landing at Edwards Air Force Base on...
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AOR (section Companies and organizations)
strategic military command Atlantic Ocean Region, a part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System Sperata aor, a catfish of family Bagridae Aur Island...
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A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication...
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developed, and operated many notable missions, including the Cosmic Background Explorer, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System...
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Tianlian (category Inter-satellite communications satellites)
communications between orbiting satellites and ground control stations. The Chinese tracking and data relay satellites were developed by the China Academy...
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A number of historic and current Earth (or ground) stations in Australia are used to communicate and track human-made satellites. Many of the sites are...
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TDRS-1 (category Satellite launch anomalies)
American communications satellite, operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by TRW and launched by Space...
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STS-29 (section Payload and experiments)
inserted a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) into Earth orbit. It was the third shuttle mission following the Challenger disaster in 1986, and launched...
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NASA Deep Space Network (redirect from Deep Space Satellite Tracking Network)
the United States and overseas, and to scientists around the world. Tracking vehicles in deep space is quite different from tracking missions in low Earth...
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TDRS-B (category Satellite launch failures)
American communications satellite, of first generation, which was to have formed part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was destroyed...
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TDRS-9 (category Communications satellites in geostationary orbit)
communications satellite which was operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by the Boeing Satellite Development...
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science experiments STS-54 Endeavour — January 1993 — Pilot – Tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS-F) deployment STS-66 Atlantis — November 1994 — Commander...
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numerous civilian satellite launches, such as the first tracking and data relay satellite, the Palapa B communications satellites, the Long Duration...
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Space Shuttle (section Design and development)
and were used to transmit data to NASA. As S band radios can operate only within their line of sight, NASA used the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite...
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