NASA Solicits Industry Proposals for Next-Generation Relay Service Written 16 April 2026

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NASA Solicits Industry Proposals for Next-Generation Relay Service

The sixth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-F) is relased from the payload bay of Endeavour during STS-54, 1 January 1993. | Credit: NASA; Wikipedia; Public Domain

Space News reports, “NASA plans to seek proposals for commercial communications services that can be backward compatible with the agency’s aging fleet of relay satellites. NASA issued April 10 a draft solicitation for Project NEXUS, a part of the broader Commercial Services Project.”
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