Image: Tracking and Data Relay satellite prepared for launch
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 08:00
in Astronomy & Space
Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L, spacecraft has been encapsulated in its payload fairing. It is being lifted by crane for mounting on a transporter for its trip to Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.