![NASA selects six companies to demonstrate commercial successors to TDRS]()
Six companies, including both traditional satellite operators and constellation developers, have won NASA awards to demonstrate services that could ultimately replace the agency’s existing fleet of communications satellites.
![NASA to award demonstrations of commercial satellite services to replace TDRS]()
NASA expects to make awards this spring in the next phase of its effort to transition from operating its decades-old network of communications satellites to purchasing commercial services.
![Hedron, formerly Analytical Space, raises $17.8 million]()
Hedron, the company formerly called Analytical Space, raised $17.8 million in a Series A fundraising round.
![NASA to hand off spacecraft communications to industry]()
NASA is preparing to hand off to the private sector much of the work of communicating with spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbit.
![Starliner flight raises profile of Space Network]()
The Space Network continues to offer reliable global coverage 24-hours a day for missions led by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other government agencies, said Ted Sobchak, NASA Space Network project manager.
![TDRS launch marks end of an era]()
The successful launch of a NASA communications satellite Aug. 18 is the final flight of the current generation of data relay spacecraft as well as for a venerable satellite bus.
![NASA reschedules TDRS-M launch for Aug. 20]()
NASA announced July 26 that the launch of a communications satellite damaged during payload processing activities earlier this month has been rescheduled for Aug. 20.
![Mishap to delay launch of NASA communications satellite]()
NASA announced July 21 that the launch of a communications satellite previously scheduled for early August will be postponed to replace an antenna damaged during launch preparations.
![ULA Wins Contract for NASA Launch]()
United Launch Alliance won a contract from NASA to launch the latest in a series of communication satellites for the agency in 2017.
![As Inspector General Frets, NASA Bides Time on TDRS Replacements]()
Despite another reminder from its inspector general that NASA's space communications network is heading for a bandwidth logjam, NASA is not rushing to procure more TDRS satellites.
WASHINGTON -- NASA is taking preliminary steps toward buying replacements for the constellation of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) it relies on to communicate with the space shuttle and nearly two dozen other spacecraft in low Earth orbit.
