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Atlas IIA | TDRS 9

TDRS 9

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 8 Mar 2002, 10:59 pm UTC

Rocket: Atlas IIA (Atlas)

Provider: Lockheed Martin

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

TDRS-9, known before launch as TDRS-I, is an American communications satellite which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by the Boeing Satellite Development Center, formerly Hughes Space and Communications, and is based on the BSS-601 satellite bus.[3] It was the second Advanced TDRS, or second-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, to be launched.