TDRS-M Atlas V Rollout from VIF to Pad 41

In the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is ready to be rolled to Space Launch Complex 41. The launch vehicle will send NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-M to orbit. TDRS-M is the latest spacecraft destined for the agency's constellation of communications satellites that allows nearly continuous contact with orbiting spacecraft ranging from the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope to the array of scientific observatories. Liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to take place from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:03 a.m. EDT Aug. 18.