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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, is enclosed in its payload fairing and prepared for its move atop a transporter from the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., to its launch site. TDRS-K will lift off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The TDRS-K spacecraft is part of the next-generation series in the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, a constellation of space-based communication satellites providing tracking, telemetry, command and high-bandwidth data return services. For more information, go to http://www.nasa.gov/tdrs Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson