#ULA – United Launch Alliance |#TDRSM- AtlasV Mission Profile…

On a Friday 18th August 2017 ULA- United Launch Alliance , on a geo synchronous transfer orbit launch from Cape Canaveral Air force Station from Launch complex 41at launch window time at 0803 morning Eastern Date Time with a forty minute window…… The Partnership Payload is NASA- National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s TDRS-M Tracking Data Relay Satellite –M series high data communications tracking satellite that provides the Space Network with a life cycle of fifteen years’ service…

The Launcher carrier Rocket is the Atlas V 401 powered with the RD 180 Engine with the secondary stage of the Centaur powered with the RL 10C Engine…

TDRS-M Tracking Data Relay Satellite –M, is the provision communications with its sisters in providing communications in support provisions of providing communications with various ground stations on Earth in between The Space Network with various spacecraft like the Space Shuttle mission, the International Space Station then with the Commercial Crew-Resupply Mission also onwards with the SLS- Constellation lunar- Martian- rover missions also with the Hubble Space Telescope as well the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope…..

#AIRBUS |Space and Defense- The #SpaceTug – revolution the space industry extending life..

 

In development of launching spacecraft, or satellites in which most do come with an operational life cycle in which till the next generation series that replaces its core operation, in which replacing the current satellites that nearing its life cycle can be costly to its operators..   in results there’s one interesting case that could be learnt during the STS –Space Transportation Systems, the Space Shuttle mission where that lessons learnt in repairing the HST- Hubble Space Telescope, also to with along with other satellites- ISS- International Space Station repairs during that STS mission era..

That lesson learnt is extending the satellites operations life cycle, before it reaching its maximum expiring operations cycle…. One Airbus Space and Defense have in mind is The Space Tug, in which designing to operations a multipurpose –application robotic satellite that does numerous tasks in helping other satellites for repositioning, refueling them aswell also exchanging other payloads as technologies progresses also it introduces reusability in space with the aid of solar electric propulsion in which enhances its services also as it rendezvous with its Patient with the aid of vision based navigation also rendezvous with others  in and proximity operations even for satellites that are not design for rendezvous…