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Space Shuttle Projects
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About this work
This artist's concept drawing depicts the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-C (TDRS-C), which was the primary payload of the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-26 mission, launched on September 29, 1988. The TDRS system provides almost uninterrupted communications with Earth-orbiting Shuttles and satellites, and had replaced the intermittent coverage provided by globe-encircling ground tracking stations used during the early space program.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineSpace Shuttle Projects. NASA/MSFC, 1988-01-01. Public domain. ID: 8893551.
