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| BOEING DELIVERS — A Boeing-built Tracking and
Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) is being delivered on Jan. 30, 2002 to Kennedy
Space Center, Fla., to receive final check out for a March launch. The
Boeing 601 satellite, named TDRS-I, is the second of three satellites
built and delivered by Boeing Space and Communications for NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center of Greenbelt, Md. The TDRS satellites relay large
volumes of user satellite data – including voice, television and
scientific – from manned missions or orbiting scientific spacecraft
back to ground control centers. |
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