TDRS

"In 2009, 11 per cent of all the calls the TDRS received were related to non-scheme members."

Stuff.co.nz - Stuff By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER 2010

It used the NASA TDRS-F1 satellite, which is geosynchronous and for about two hours it was visible above the horizon at 90N.

NASA Watch: November 2007 Archives 2007

It used the NASA TDRS-F1 satellite, which is geosynchronous and for about two hours it was visible above the horizon at 90N.

Setting The Record Straight Re: Live Polar Webcasts - NASA Watch 2007

It used the NASA TDRS-F1 satellite, which is geosynchronous and for about two hours it was visible above the horizon at 90N.

NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: November 2007 Archives 2007

It used the NASA TDRS-F1 satellite, which is geosynchronous and for about two hours it was visible above the horizon at 90N.

NASA Watch: Exploration: November 2007 Archives 2007

Boeing is a competing as a prime contractor for the other three programs The original TDRS satellite program dates back to the 1980s, when more than half a dozen early versions were built by TRW, a company subsequently acquired by Northrop Grumman.

Boeing Lands Satellite Contract 2007

In 2000, Boeing had technical problems and suffered a performance shortfall on the phased array antenna aboard the first of three advanced TDRS satellites it built for NASA.

Boeing Lands Satellite Contract 2007

Also, the STS-26 mission objective was relatively trivial, the release of a TDRS communications satellite, something that had been done several times in the past.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

The press had ignored video of the STS-26 crew deploying their quarter-billion-dollar TDRS satellite and instead showed them dressed in Hawaiian shirts engaging in 0-G surfing.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

Also, the STS-26 mission objective was relatively trivial, the release of a TDRS communications satellite, something that had been done several times in the past.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006