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Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System

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Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System [¦trak·iŋ an ¦dad·ə ¦rē‚lā ′sad·ə·‚līt ‚sis·təm]
(communications)
A system providing telecommunication services between low-earth-orbiting user spacecraft and user control centers; it consists of a series of geostationary spacecraft and an earth terminal located at White Sands, New Mexico. Abbreviated TDRSS.


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The United States Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), which has linked the Space Shuttle and Landsat 4 to a ground station, is an example of such a system.
General Dynamics also uses VEE Pro to test another transponder product line for near-Earth satellites that use the tracking and data relay satellite system (TDRSS) and ground network S-Band signals.
Columbia presently has title to COLUMBIA-515 as well as control and operation of the commercial C-Band capacity on board two satellites in NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS).
 
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