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  skos:definition """Atlantis will put NASA's fourth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-E) into orbit on Space Shuttle mission STS-43 to update the satellite tracking network, resulting in two operating satellites plus a complement of two spares in the space network.

TDRS-E, to be deployed from Atlantis about 6 hours after launch, will be boosted to a geosynchronous orbit by an attached upper stage where TDRS-E will be positioned to remain stationary 22,400 miles above the Pacific Ocean southwest of Hawaii.

The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, in operation since the eighth Space Shuttle flight, provides almost uninterrupted communications with Earth-orbiting shuttles and satellites and has replaced the intermittent coverage provided by globe-encircling ground tracking stations used during the early space program.  A reduced string of ground stations remains in operation, however, for radar tracking and backup communications.

[Summary provided by NASA]


Group: Platform_Details
   Entry_ID: STS-43
   Group: Platform_Identification
      Platform_Category: Space Stations/Manned Spacecraft
      Platform_Series_or_Entity: SPACE SHUTTLE
      Short_Name: STS-43
      Long_Name: Space Transport System STS-43
   End_Group
   Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names
      Short_Name: Atlantis (9)
   End_Group
   Group: Orbit
      Orbit_Altitude: 174nm
      Orbit_Inclination: 28.45 degrees
   End_Group
   Creation_Date: 2008-01-29
   Online_Resource: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-43/mission-sts-43.html
   Sample_Image: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/134436main_sts-43-crew-sm.jpg
   Group: Platform_Logistics
      Launch_Date: 1991-08-02
      Launch_Site: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center, USA
      Primary_Sponsor: NASA
   End_Group
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