TDRS-M Liftoff
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, with NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-M. TDRS-M. Liftoff was at 8:29 a.m. EDT. 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.
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NASA ID
KSC-20170818-PH_AWG07_0017
Date Created
August 18, 2017
Center
KSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA/Tony Gray and Sandra Joseph
Location
Pad 41
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