Geostationary
TDRS 11
Data Relay · NASA
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Part of NASA's third-generation TDRS constellation, TDRS-11 provides high-rate data relay across multiple frequency bands simultaneously. It supports ISS operations, provides backup relay capability for human spaceflight, and links Hubble Space Telescope, the Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory, and numerous other NASA science missions to their operations centers around the clock.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,234–22,250 mi (35,782–35,808 km)
- Inclination
- 3.7°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 39070
- Int’l designator
- 2013-004A
- Launched
- 2013
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.