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A mission control center (MCC, sometimes called a flight control center or operations center) is a facility that manages
attitude dynamics
, orbital operations and other subsystem disciplines. The training for these missions usually falls under the responsibility of the flight controllers, typically including extensive rehearsals in the MCC.
NASA's Mission Control Center
United States missions are, prior to liftoff, controlled from the Launch Control Center (LCC) located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida.[1] Responsibility for the booster and spacecraft remains with the Launch Control Center until the booster has cleared the launch tower.
After liftoff, responsibility is handed over to
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
.
NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston also manages the U.S. portions of the International Space Station (ISS).
RKA Mission Control Center
The Mission Control Center of the
RKK Energia plant. It contains an active control room for the ISS. It also houses a memorial control room for the Mir
where the last few orbits of Mir before it burned up in the atmosphere are shown on the display screens.
ISRO Mission Control Centre
The Mission Control Center of the
Indian Space Research Organisation is located at Satish Dhawan Space Centre
, Sriharikota, India.
European Space Operations Centre
- European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) is responsible for ESA's satellites and space probes. It is located in Darmstadt, Germany.
German Space Operations Center
- German Space Operations Center (GSOC) is responsible for DLR's satellites and other customers' missions. It is located in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany.
- The Columbus Control Centre (Col-CC) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. It is the mission control center for the European Columbus research laboratory at the International Space Station.
- The Galileo Control Center (GCC) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. It is one of the mission control centers for the European Galileo Navigation System.[2]
French Space Operations Center
- The French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC) is located at the Toulouse Space Centre(CST) in Toulouse, France. It is the mission control center for the European Automated Transfer Vehicles, that regularly resupply ISS.
Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center
Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center is a command center for the
Shenzhou
missions. The building is inside a complex nicknamed Aerospace City. The city is located in a suburb northwest of Beijing.
Spaceflight Operations Facility
The
Deep Space Network from the Space Flight Operations Facility
.
Other significant centers
- America
- Axiom Space Mission Control Center (MCC-A) in Houston, Texas.
- Boeing Satellite Development Center (SDC) Mission Control Center[3] in El Segundo, California, US. In charge of several military satellites.
- Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland provides mission control for the Hubble Space Telescope.
- A2100 Space Operations Center (ASOC)[4]in Newtown, Pennsylvania, US. In charge of several military satellites.
- Mercury Control Center was located on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and was used during Project Mercury. One of its still standing buildings now serves as a makeshift bunker for the media if a rocket explodes near the ground.
- Canadarm2and "dextre" robotics operations.
- Space Systems/Loral Mission Control Center[5]in Palo Alto, California, US.
- The MESSENGER and New Horizons missions were controlled from the Applied Physics Laboratory near Baltimore, Maryland.[6]
- SpaceX Mission Control Center (MCC-X) in Hawthorne, California
- Multi-Mission Operations Center at the Ames Research Center
- Marshall Spaceflight Centerin Huntsville, Alabama where science activities aboard the International Space Station are monitored around the clock.
- Asia
- Kibo ISS research laboratory and the resupply flights of the H-II Transfer Vehicle. JAXAs satellite operations are also based here.
- Europe
- The ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC) is located at the Toulouse Space Centre (CST) in Toulouse, France. It is the mission control center for the European Automated Transfer Vehicles, that regularly resupply ISS.
- The Columbus Control Center (Col-CC) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. It is the mission control center for the European Columbus research laboratory at the International Space Station.
- The Rover Operations Control Centre (ROCC) is located in Turin, Italy. It will be the mission control center for the ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin.[7]
- Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre, mission control center in Krasnoznamensk, Russia.
See also
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Space exploration control rooms.
- ^ "Launch Control Center". NASA. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- ^ "Galileo Control Center". GfR. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "Satellite Mission Control Center". Archived from the original on 30 December 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
- ^ "World Class Satellites and Facilities". Archived from the original on 25 December 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
- ^ "Overview". Archived from the original on 13 March 2009. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
- ^ "Pluto Flyby Success! NASA Probe Phones Home After Epic Encounter". Space.com.
- ^ "A European mission control for the martian rover". ESA. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
External links
- Mission Control Centre for the Russian Federal Space Agency (in Russian)
- Space flight - Mission Control Center (English)
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Columbus Control Centre
- Automated Transfer Vehicle Control Centre
- European Space Operations Center