{"id":14540,"date":"2017-08-19T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T08:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14540"},"modified":"2017-08-19T13:06:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T08:06:44","slug":"nasa-launches-satellite-to-help-astronauts-talk-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14540","title":{"rendered":"NASA launches satellite to help astronauts talk to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MIAMI, Aug 19 (TNS):<\/strong> NASA has launched the latest in a series of satellites aimed at ensuring astronauts at the International Space Station can communicate with Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The $408 million Boeing-made Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-M) soared into space atop an Atlas V rocket that launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 8:29 am (1229 GMT). The satellite will &#8220;support critical space communication into the mid-2020s,&#8221; NASA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite will facilitate space-to-ground communication for NASA&#8217;s low-Earth orbit operations, &#8220;ensuring scientists, engineers and control room staff can readily access data for missions like the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TDRS-M is the last of 13 such satellites that have been launched since 1983. An antenna on the satellite was damaged last month at a processing facility in Titusville, Florida. The satellite was repaired, but the mishap set the launch back by about two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI, Aug 19 (TNS): NASA has launched the latest in a series of satellites aimed at ensuring astronauts at the International Space Station can communicate with Earth. The $408 million Boeing-made Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-M) soared into space atop an Atlas V rocket that launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 8:29 am (1229 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,788,26],"tags":[789,732,733],"class_list":["post-14540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-miami-world","category-science-and-technology","tag-miami","tag-science-and-technology","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14542,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions\/14542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}