COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV), a leading manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, today announced that NASA's TDRS K satellite was successfully launched on January 30 with COM DEV-built filters and switches on board.

The Boeing-built next-generation satellite provides NASA with crucial crosslink communications capability between Earth-orbiting spacecraft and control and data processing facilities on the ground. TDRS K is the first of three Tracking and Data Relay Satellites ("TDRS") planned to augment the earlier TDRS constellation that serves as NASA's means of continuous, high-data rate communication with the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Space Station and dozens of unmanned scientific satellites in low Earth orbit.

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"We are very pleased to be involved in this project which is crucial to the communications infrastructure of the US Government." said Dan White, President of COM DEV USA. "That COM DEV equipment was chosen for the TDRS spacecraft is a testament to our role as a trusted supplier to all the major space contractors."