NASA Signs Agreement With Bermuda For Tracking Station

March 7, 2012

Michael Braukus
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1979
michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov

Keith Koehler
Wallops Flight Facility, Va.
757-824-1579
keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov

RELEASE: 12-074

NASA SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH BERMUDA FOR TRACKING STATION

WASHINGTON -- NASA and the government of Bermuda signed an agreement
today to establish a temporary mobile tracking station on Cooper's
Island to support launches from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility
in Virginia including future commercial missions. Deputy Premier and
Transport Minister Derrick Burgess and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori
Garver signed the agreement.

The mobile tracking station will be provided and operated by Wallops
under NASA's Research Range Services Program. The station can provide
telemetry, meteorological, optical, and command and control services.
It will support the launch of commercial rockets carrying supplies to
the International Space Station or satellites to low-Earth orbit.

"This tracking station will help facilitate NASA's partnership with
commercial companies and support operations aboard the International
Space Station," Garver said. "We're grateful to the government of
Bermuda for its ongoing support to NASA."

Bermuda has been a long-time partner of NASA in supporting space
exploration. The British territory hosted a radar tracking station
from the Mercury Project in the early 1960s through most of the Space
Shuttle Program.

For more information on NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation
Services, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/home/cots_project.html

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