NASA’s TDRSS Problem: Why the Agency Is Betting on Commercial Providers to Keep Hubble and the ISS Online

NASA’s TDRSS Problem: Why the Agency Is Betting on Commercial Providers to Keep Hubble and the ISS Online

NASA could lose contact with the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station by the end of this decade. The satellites that keep those missions connected to the ground are dying, and the spacecraft themselves cannot be retrofitted with new radios. If the agency doesn’t secure a replacement communications system before its aging Tracking [...] The post NASA’s TDRSS Problem: Why the Agency Is Betting on Commercial Providers to Keep Hubble and the ISS Online appeared first on Space Daily .