TDRS-M Liftoff
As the Sun rises at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket vents liquid oxygen propellant vapors during fueling for the lift off of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-M. The satellite 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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KSC-20170818-PH_KAA01_0029
Date Created
August 18, 2017
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KSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA/Kenneth Allen
Location
UCS-15
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