NASA Launches Third Generation Communications Satellite

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NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite L (TDRS-L), the 12th spacecraft in the agency’s TDRS Project, is safely in orbit after launching at 9:33 p.m. EST Thursday aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Ground controllers report the satellite – part of a network providing high-data-rate communications to the International Space Sta
Published at Tue, 28 JAN 2014 16:46:21 AEST