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Friday, January 25, 2013

NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Flight 6, Built by Northrop Grumman, Marks 20 Years on Orbit

TDRS Flight 6 |The sixth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS), built for NASA by Northrop Grumman Corporation, marked 20 years of successful on-orbit performance Jan. 13, surpassing its design life by a decade.

Placed into orbit by the space shuttle Endeavour (STS-54) in 1993, TDRS Flight 6 has provided a multitude of communications services to a wide variety of missions, such as transmitting stunning images from the Hubble Space Telescope to Earth, and delivering pictures, television, voice and data from the International Space Station.

Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sector built the first generation of seven TDRS spacecraft at its Space Park facilities in Redondo Beach. TDRS-6 is currently in geosynchronous orbit in a location over the Atlantic Ocean above Brazil, according to NASA.

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