Countdown Underway for TDRS-M

The countdown is underway for the liftoff of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-M. TDRS-M is the latest spacecraft destined for the agency’s constellation of communications satellites that allows nearly continuous contact with orbiting spacecraft ranging from the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope to the array of scientific observatories. Liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to take place from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:03 a.m. EDT.

Photo credit: Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett