The
umbilical tower drops back from a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401
rocket as it lifts off Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station in Florida. Launch, with NASA's Tracking and Data Relay
Satellite-K or TDRS-K aboard, was at 8:48 p.m. EST on Jan. 30.
The
TDRS-K spacecraft is part of the next-generation series in the Tracking
and Data Relay Satellite System, a constellation of space-based
communication satellites providing tracking, telemetry, command and
high-bandwidth data return services.
Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Robert Murray
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