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Spacecraft Checkout

Spacecraft Checkout
Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, is checked out prior to encapsulation in the protective faring. The spacecraft is being prepared for launch into geostationary orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, is checked out prior to encapsulation in the protective faring. The spacecraft is being prepared for launch into geostationary orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Dec. 18, 2012