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RE: TDRS-K satellite

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A More Capable Comm Satellite Launched on This Week

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NASA Launches Next-Generation Communications Satellite

The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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New Comm Satellite Launch Nears

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Managers at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre update media on Jan. 28 about Wednesday's scheduled launch of the TDRS-K, the first of a new generation of communications satellites that will support the agency's fleet of Earth-orbiting spacecraft, including the International Space Station ad the Hubble Space Telescope.

Ed ~ A ULA Atlas 5 rocket is scheduled to launch the TDRS-K communications satellite from Cape Canaveral between 01:52 - 02:32 UT, 31st January, 2013.