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NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-J. TDRS-J. successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Florida.


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on December 4th. 2002. at 9:42 p.m. Eastern time aboard an Atlas IIA rocket.


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NASA Commentator: "one,and we have main engine ignition, and liftoff of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.


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completing the constellation of a new generation of space communication satellites."


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TDRS-J is the third in a series of three advanced satellites that provide researchers


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with images and high-resolution digital television from several NASA missions.


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including Hubble and the Space Shuttle. among others.


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This second-generation TDRS has replenished the original six TDRS.


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which provided reliable communications support since the 1980's.


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