TDRS Profile: Thomas Williams

Thomas Williams is a system engineer for NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS. The project built the follow-on replacement spacecraft necessary to maintain and expand NASA’s Space Network. The final third generation satellite launched on Aug. 18, 2017, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard an Atlas V rocket. TDRS-13 joined the constellation of now 10 space-based communications satellites providing tracking, telemetry, command and high-bandwidth data return services.
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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Stu Snodgrass