Tomorrow morning, a NASA communications satellite is scheduled to launch to space from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on top of an Atlas V rocket made by the United Launch Alliance. The launch was slated for earlier this month, but was delayed after some equipment on the probe was broken during launch preparations. But now, the satellite, called TDRS-M, is ready to head to orbit, where it will join a fleet of other satellites crucial to NASA’s operations in space.
That fleet is known as NASA’s Space Network — a constellation of satellites that allows the space agency to better communicate with its vehicles in lower Earth orbit. That includes NASA’s many Earth-observing satellites, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope and the International...
