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Artist's Concept of TDRS-C

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-sco01-20099

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 18 cm

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. The TDRS can transmit and receive data, and track a user spacecraft in a low Earth orbit.

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1988 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - COMMUNICATION SATELLITE - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - GEOSTATIONARY - ILLUSTRATION - LIMB - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE - STS-26 - TDRS - TDRS-C -