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.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- NASA
- Mass
- 2108
- Manufacturer
- TRW Inc.
- Image
- TDRS-G at KSC.jpg
- Width
- 14.2
- Length
- 17.3
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1995-07-13
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
- space launch vehicle
- Space Shuttle
- Commons category
- TDRS-G
- type of orbit
- geosynchronous orbit
- nominal power output
- 1700
- space tug
- Inertial Upper Stage
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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.
==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.
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