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English: In the early morning hours on Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the tower rolls back from NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) before liftoff atop an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket. One of three satellites (labeled H, I and J) being built by the Hughes Space and Communications Company, the latest TDRS uses an innovative springback antenna design. A pair of 15-foot- diameter, flexible mesh antenna reflectors fold up for launch, then spring back into their original cupped circular shape on orbit. The new satellites will augment the TDRS system's existing S- and Ku-band frequencies by adding Ka-band capability. TDRS will serve as the sole means of continuous, high-data-rate communication with the Space Shuttle, with the International Space Station upon its completion, and with dozens of unmanned scientific satellites in low earth orbit.
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08:26, 5 May 2007Thumbnail for version as of 08:26, 5 May 2007504 × 768 (105 KB)Fritzbox (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Atlas before start (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite) |Source=http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/2000/captions/KSC-00PP-0821.html |Date=30. Juni 2000 |Author=NOAA |Permission={{PD-USGov}} |other_versions= }} [[Category

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