TDRS-7
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TDRS-7, known before launch as TDRS-G, is an American communications satellite, of first generation, which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by TRW as a replacement for TDRS-B, which had been lost in the Challenger accident, and was the last first generation TDRS satellite to be launched.
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Vinony's link graph records 67 inbound references to TDRS-7, and connects out to Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, NASA and UTC.
It sits within the topics Communications satellites in geostationary orbit, Source attribution and Spacecraft launched by the Space Shuttle.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 2108
- Image
- TDRS-G at KSC.jpg
- Width
- 14.2
- Length
- 17.3
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1995-07-13
- Commons category
- TDRS-G
- nominal power output
- 1700
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Launch
- Deployment
- See also
- References
TDRS-7, known before launch as TDRS-G, is an American communications satellite, of first generation, which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by TRW as a replacement for TDRS-B, which had been lost in the Challenger accident, and was the last first generation TDRS satellite to be launched.
==History== TDRS-7 is based on a custom satellite bus which was used for all seven first generation TDRS satellites. Whilst similar to its predecessors, it differed from them slightly in that twelve G/H band (C band (IEEE)) transponders which had been included on the previous satellites were omitted. It was the last communications satellite, other than amateur radio spacecraft, to be deployed by a Space Shuttle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “TDRS-7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.