NASA's first TDRS satellite records 20 years of service
TDRS-1: NASA's original Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1, has put in two decades of service as of April 4, according to the aerospace agency. TDRS was launched from the shuttle Challenger in 1983 and was nearly immediately lost when its upper stage failed. NASA engineers used the spacecraft...
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