TDRS-5: Difference between revisions

===Deployment===

The twin-stage solid-propellent Inertial Upper Stage made two burns. The first stage burn occurred shortly after deployment, from ''Atlantis'', and placed the satellite into a [[geosynchronous transfer orbit]]. Around six hours later, it reached [[apogee]], and the second stage fired, placing TDRS-E into geosynchronous orbit. At this point it received its operational designation, TDRS-5. It was placed at a position over the [[equator]], 174° West of the [[Greenwich Meridian]],<ref name="SFN-TDRSJ"/> from where it provides communications services to spacecraft in Earth orbit, including the [[Space Shuttle]] and [[International Space Station]]. Some of its transponders are operated by the [[Columbia Communications Corporation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tbs-satellite.com/tse/online/sat_tdrs_5.html|title=TDRS 5|publisher=TSE|accessdate=2009-08-02}}</ref>

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