The TDRS-K spacecraft stands inside a processing hangar in Titusville, Fla., awaiting packaging for launch into orbit 22,300 miles above Earth. An artist concept of the TDRS-K spacecraft in orbit with ...

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket carrying NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-K, TDRS-K, streaks past the Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in ...

WASHINGTON — Despite another reminder from its inspector general that the agency’s space communications network is heading for a bandwidth logjam in 2016, NASA is not rushing to procure more of the ...

NASA’s first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS), launched in April 1983 aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger’s maiden voyage, was shut down June 27, marking the end of its 27 years of service.

More than 50 years ago, at the dawn of human spaceflight, the first brave astronauts were only able to communicate with mission control operators on Earth for about 15 percent of each orbit. If this ...

In planning shorthand, a TDR is simply a “transfer of development rights” — wherein a property owner or developer can buy rights from someone building less than a zone allows or earning the rights by ...

Launch delays are sometimes part of the equation in determining when specific missions launch in relation to each other. Sometimes, those delays occur to missions for the same agency, as is now the ...

On August 3, 2017 the TDRS-M satellite will be launched atop the massive Atlas V rocket at Kennedy Space Center and I will be there in the press stands near the countdown clock to cover the launch for ...

The city of Aspen has settled a lawsuit concerning the council’s denial of a $250,000 historic preservation benefit that a property owner claimed as an entitlement. Jeffery Shoaf, who is behind the ...