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Atlas 5 rocket delivers NASA data router into space for astronauts and satellites
Bulking up NASA's constellation of tracking stations in the sky that provides critical links between orbiting spacecraft and ground control, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully deployed a new communications hub in space today.
Video: TDRS-M takes flight atop Atlas 5
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 191 feet tall and and weighing 745,000 pounds, generates 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine to launch NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M.
Video: Atlas/TDRS-M pre-launch news briefing
Watch the pre-launch news conference held Thursday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to preview liftoff of the agency's TDRS-M data relay satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
Multimedia: Atlas 5 rolled out with TDRS-M
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was transferred from its assembly building to the pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 today for Friday's launch of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M that directly supports the International Space Station and various science missions.
Live coverage: Atlas 5 countdown and launch journal
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 8:29 a.m. EDT (1229 GMT) today to place NASA's new tracking station into the sky. The data router will relay video, telemetry and science information from the space station and dozens of research satellites to a central ground terminal. Follow the ascent in our live journal.
VideoPreview: NASA science-enabling relay satellite poised for launch
Resembling a cocooned insect with antennas and appendages tucked snuggly to its body for launch, NASA's latest communications relay hub will be shot into space Friday to blossom in geosynchronous orbit for routing signals to and from the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope and three dozen science observatories.
VideoTimeline: Atlas 5/TDRS-M ascent events
This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral with NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M. Launch is scheduled for Friday at 8:03 a.m. EDT (1203 GMT).
Photos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled to launch data relay satellite for NASA
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will boost NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M, or TDRS-M, into space from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 18 at 8:03 a.m. EDT (1203 GMT).
AV-074/TDRS-M launch fact sheet
Our comprehensive fact sheet previewing the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket deployment of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M.
Videos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled to launch NASA’s TDRS-M bird
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that will boost NASA's latest communications relay satellite into space is targeting an Aug. 20 liftoff at 7:56 a.m. EDT (1156 GMT).