TDRS-M – Atlas V 401 – Канаверал SLC-41 – 18.08.2017 12:29 UTC

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Atlas V to Launch NASA's TDRS-M Mission
Rocket/Payload: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 configuration vehicle will launch the Tracking Data Relay System (TDRS)-M payload for NASA.

Date/Site/Launch Time: Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

Live Broadcast: Stay tuned for how you can watch live.

Mission Description: The addition of TDRS-M to the Space Network (SN) will provide the ability to support space communication for an additional 15 years. The network consists of TDRS satellites that transmit data to and from ground stations on Earth for NASA missions and expendable launch vehicles. Without the Space Network, scientists, engineers and control room staff would be unable to readily access data from missions like the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station.

Launch Notes: This launch will be ULA's fifth of 2017 and 120th overall. A ULA Atlas V also launched TDRS-K mission in 2013 and TDRS-L in 2014. This mission will mark the 72nd Atlas V rocket since its inaugural launch in 2002.

Launch Updates: To keep up to speed with updates to the launch countdown, dial the ULA launch hotline at 1-877-852-4321 or join the conversation at www.facebook.com/ulalaunch, twitter.com/ulalaunch and instagram.com/ulalaunch.

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TDRS-M Spacecraft Arrives in Florida for Prelaunch Preparations
Posted on June 23, 2017 at 5:31 pm by Linda Herridge.
          

The next addition to NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) System has arrived in Florida to begin processing for its August launch. The TDRS-M satellite, secured in a shipping container, was delivered Friday aboard a cargo aircraft that touched down at Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida, near the agency's Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft then was transported to the Astrotech Space Operations facility to begin preparations for launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
TDRS-M will expand the capabilities of NASA's Space Network to support space communication for an additional 15 years. The network consists of TDRS satellites that transmit data to and from ground stations on Earth for NASA missions and expendable launch vehicles. The Space Network allows scientists, engineers and control room staff to readily access data from missions like the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station.
Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems of El Segundo, California, built TDRS-M. NASA's Space Communications and Navigation Program, a part of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is responsible for the TDRS network. Launch management of the Atlas V launch service for TDRS-M is the responsibility of the mission directorate's Launch Services Program at Kennedy.

Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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ЦитироватьAug. 3 • Atlas 5 • TDRS M
Launch window: 1302-1342 GMT (9:02-9:42 a.m. EDT)
 Launch site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, designated AV-074, will launch the TDRS M communications and data relay satellite for NASA. The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) connects mission control with the International Space Station and other orbiting satellites. The rocket will fly in the 401 vehicle configuration with a four-meter fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage. Moved forward from Aug. 4. [June 21]
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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/06/26/tdrs-m-satellite-and-its-atlas-5-rocket-shipped-to-florida-for-launch-campaign/
ЦитироватьTDRS-M satellite and its Atlas 5 rocket shipped to Florida for launch campaign
June 26, 2017 Justin Ray

CAPE CANAVERAL — A space-bound NASA satellite was hauled aboard a military transport aircraft from a Southern California factory to the launch site in Florida on Friday and its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket booster arrived by sea from the manufacturing plant in Alabama today.

The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M, or TDRS-M, is scheduled for launch Aug. 3 at 9:02 a.m. EDT (1302 GMT) from Cape Canaveral.
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NASA's TDRS-M satellite arrives at Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida, aboard a U.S. Air Force transport aircraft Friday at dawn. Credit: Kim Shiflett/NASA-KSC

"The team is getting jazzed," TDRS Project Manager Dave Littmann said in a phone interview Friday.

"We are currently on track for an Aug. 3 launch date."

The craft was flown from Boeing's Satellite Development Center in El Segundo, California, to the Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, the town neighboring NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, operated by Air Mobility Command, flew a red-eye trek from Los Angeles International Airport across the country, touching down in Florida at 6:30 a.m.

Snug in its protective shipping container, the communications spacecraft was taken to the commercial Astrotech payload processing campus for the start of the launch campaign.

The satellite will undergo final testing, the loading of its in-space maneuvering fuel and encapsulation the rocket's nose cone while at Astrotech.

Meanwhile, the ocean-going Delta Mariner cargo ship delivered the Atlas 5's booster stage and Centaur upper stage to Port Canaveral today after an 8-day journey from ULA's production factory in Decatur, Alabama.

The vessel traversed 270 miles up the Tennessee River, 60 miles on the Ohio River and 646 miles down the Mississippi River. The trek then covered 815 miles through the Gulf of Mexico and around to Florida's east-central coast to the Cape, arriving at about 2:30 p.m.

The two-stage rocket will be stacked aboard the mobile launch platform at the Vertical Integration Facility in the coming weeks.


The Delta Mariner steams into Port Canaveral with the Atlas 5 rocket that will launch NASA's TDRS-M satellite. Credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now

The TDRS-M satellite was built to provide follow-on and replacement capacity to maintain and expand NASA's Space Network communications infrastructure.

Operating from geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above Earth, TDRS-M will supply high bandwidth telecommunications services for data-relay and tracking low-Earth orbiting user spacecraft and launch vehicles, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Space Station and NASA's science observatories.

This spacecraft is the third and final built by Boeing under the third generation of TDRS satellites, joining TDRS-K launched in 2013 and TDRS-L in 2014 by the Atlas 5.

They are joined in orbit by the Boeing-built TDRS-H, I and J launched in 2000 and 2002 aboard Atlas 2A rockets for the constellation's second generation.

Four of the original generation, built by TRW and launched by space shuttles between 1983 and 1995, remain useful in orbit as well.

The TDRS satellites are clustered in three zones — the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean regions — to cover the entire globe with near-continuous communications.

The system was started in 1973 and saw its first satellite launched in 1983 to phase out and replace NASA's global grid of ground stations that severely limited contact with shuttle missions and unmanned spacecraft.
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Цитировать NASA Nate‏ @NASA_Nerd 32 мин. назад

@ulalaunch #AtlasV rocket arrives at the Cape in preparation for the August 3rd 9:02am launch of #TDRSM from Space Launch Complex 41


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Цитировать NASA Nate‏ @NASA_Nerd 12h ago

#TDRSM arrives at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville for prelaunch processing.

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ЦитироватьAtlas V Rocket for TDRS-M Mission Begins Prelaunch Checkouts
Posted on June 28, 2017 at 3:30 pm by Anna Heiney.
          

NASA's TDRS-M satellite arrives inside its shipping container at Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida, aboard a U.S. Air Force transport aircraft. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that will provide a boost for the next in NASA's constellation of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites has arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The company's Mariner cargo ship delivered the rocket's first stage and Centaur upper stage to the Army Wharf at Port Canaveral on Monday afternoon. After unloading Tuesday morning, the components were transported by truck to their respective processing areas on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where they'll be readied for launch. The first stage now is inside the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center and the Centaur is in the Delta Operations Center.



The TDRS-M spacecraft arrived in Florida on Friday, June 23 and is going through its prelaunch paces at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in nearby Titusville. Launch of TDRS-M aboard the Atlas V is slated for August 3 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41.
Photo at right: At Port Canaveral in Florida, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V first stage booster and Centaur upper stage are about to be transported from the company's Mariner ship to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

This entry was posted in TDRS-M on June 28, 2017 by Anna Heiney.



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ЦитироватьComing Soon: The Latest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-M

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Опубликовано: 13 февр. 2017 г.

TDRS-M will enable groundbreaking science and expand the current fleet of satellites. TDRS puts the "space" in Space Network. In geosynchronous orbit around Earth, the TDRS constellation ensures reliable, global communications coverage to more than 35 NASA spacecraft. TDRS-M will be the 12th satellite the TDRS team has launched since 1983.
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Цитировать NASA TDRS‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_TDRS 41 мин. назад

Thursday, media will get the chance to view TDRS-M for the last time before launch. But check out this footage of it arriving at the cape!

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Цитировать Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow 10 мин. назад

Stacking began today of the Atlas 5 rocket that will launch NASA's #TDRSM Tracking and Data Relay Satellite on Aug. 3 (file photo)

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With the Atlas 5 that will boost it into space now assembled, #TDRSM satellite is in final preps for Aug. 3 launch https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/07/13/photos-nasas-tdrs-m-satellite-being-readied-for-upcoming-launch/ ...
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July 13, 2017 Justin Ray

CAPE CANAVERAL — With the Atlas 5 rocket that will boost it into space now assembled and waiting, a $408 million NASA communications satellite is in final preparations for its science data relay mission.

The Tracking and Data Relay satellite-M, or TDRS-M, will be carried aloft by United Launch Alliance on Aug. 3 from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. A 40-minute morning launch window opens at 9:02 a.m. EDT (1302 GMT).
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Built by Boeing, the geosynchronous spacecraft will act like a relay station 22,300 miles above Earth to receive telemetry, voice, video and scientific data from lower orbiting platforms — like the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope — and beam the signals to a central ground hub.

The satellite will become the 12th TDRS placed in space since 1983 and extend the constellation well into the 2020s, providing near continuous connectivity to spacecraft that would otherwise be in range of ground stations 15 percent of each orbit.

TDRS-M, standing 27 feet tall, currently resides at the Astrotech satellite processing facility in Titusville, Florida, having been fueled to its launch mass of 7,610 pounds.

It was shown to the news media today.

The craft arrived in Florida on June 23. Functional testing of the satellite bus, payload and propulsion system was completed by July 6 and propellant load wrapped on on Tuesday, July 11.

"We are right on schedule," said Paul Buchanan, TDRS deputy project manager.

The next step will occur next week when the craft is encapsulated in the Atlas 5 rocket's 14-foot-diameter, 42-foot-tall aluminum payload shroud that will protect the delicate satellite for the trek out of the atmosphere.

Then, the payload will be hauled through Kennedy Space Center to the Vertical Integration Facility at Complex 41 for lifting and mating to the launch vehicle on July 25.

The rocket arrived by sea on June 26, sailing into Port Canaveral from the manufacturing plant in Decatur, Alabama, aboard the Delta Mariner cargo ship.

On Wednesday, July 12, United Launch Alliance workers began stacking the two-stage Atlas 5 rocket, designated AV-074, by erecting the first stage aboard the mobile launch platform parked inside the VIF.

The combined interstage, Centaur upper stage and boattail of the fairing, all pre-integrated together off-site, was hoisted atop the first stage earlier today.

With the basic buildup complete, initial power-on testing begins tomorrow.

The 191-foot-tall rocket will be wheeled to the pad on Aug. 1 at 9 a.m.

Photos by William Harwood











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ЦитироватьTDRS-M Spacecraft, Atlas V Rocket Take Strides Toward Launch
Posted on July 13, 2017 at 4:11 pm by Anna Heiney.

NASA's next addition to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System and the rocket that will deliver it to space are achieving significant prelaunch milestones this week.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V first stage is lifted at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett


Credit: NASA/Glenn Benson

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is coming together in the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 on Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The first-stage booster was transported to the launch complex and lifted into position yesterday. The Centaur upper stage will be installed today atop the first stage.

Meanwhile, at the Astrotech payload processing facility in nearby Titusville, local news media got a chance to see the TDRS-M spacecraft before it is affixed to the payload attach fitting in preparation for encapsulation inside the Atlas V payload fairing next week.

This entry was posted in TDRS-M on July 13, 2017 by Anna Heiney.
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