Nasa launches communications satellite used to support ISS - Earth Brazil

January 24, 2014 • • updated at 3:58 a.m.

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Satellite is used to support the ISS and the Hubble telescope Photo: EFE

NASA launched the night this Thursday from Cape Canaveral in Florida, a new communications satellite, used to support the International Space Station (ISS, its acronym in English) and the Hubble Telescope , among others, according to information from the agency AP .

The TDRS system stands at a height of almost 36 thousand kilometers in height, at various locations along the equator, and enables communication between the ISS and its six inhabitants. The system is so important that it is considered a national asset.

A very difficult, if not impossible, without the coverage provided by satellites TDRS modern space program, involving astronauts, would, according to Badri Younes, NASA administrator for space communications and navigation.

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