Mission control center
A mission control center is a facility that manages space flights, usually from the point of launch until landing or the end of the mission. It is part of the ground segment of spacecraft operations. A staff of flight controllers and other support personnel monitor all aspects of the mission using telemetry, and send commands to the vehicle using ground stations. Personnel supporting the mission from an MCC can include representatives of the attitude control system, power, propulsion, thermal, 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 located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. 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 NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston also manages the U.S. portions of the International Space Station.
RKA Mission Control Center
The Mission Control Center of the Russian Federal Space Agency, also known by its acronym ЦУП is located in Korolyov, near 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 is responsible for ESA's satellites and space probes. It is located in Darmstadt, Germany.
German Space Operations Center
- German Space Operations Center is responsible for DLR's satellites and other customer's missions. It is located in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany.
- The Columbus Control Centre at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. It is the mission control center for the European Columbus research laboratory at the International Space Station.
- The at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. It is one of the mission control centers for the European Galileo Navigation System.
French Space Operations Center
- The French National Centre for Space Studies ATV Control Centre is located at the Toulouse Space Centre 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
Spaceflight Operations Facility
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California manages all of NASA's uncrewed spacecraft outside Earth's orbit and several research probes within along with the Deep Space Network from the Space Flight Operations Facility.Other significant centers
;America- Boeing Satellite Development Center Mission Control Center 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.
- Lockheed Martin A2100 Space Operations Center 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.
- Mobile Servicing System Control and Training at Saint-Hubert, Quebec, Canada. Supports Canadarm2 and "dextre" robotics operations.
- Space Systems/Loral Mission Control Center in Palo Alto, California, US.
- The MESSENGER and New Horizons missions were controlled from the Applied Physics Laboratory near Baltimore, Maryland.
- SpaceX’s Mission Control Center in Hawthorne, California
- Multi-Mission Operations Center at the Ames Research Center
- Payload Operations and Integration Center at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama where science activities aboard the International Space Station are monitored around the clock.
- JEM Control Center and the HTV Control Center at the Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Japan manages operations aboard JAXA's Kibo ISS research laboratory and the resupply flights of the H-II Transfer Vehicle. JAXAs satellite operations are also based here.
- The ATV Control Centre is located at the Toulouse Space Centre in Toulouse, France. It is the mission control center for the European Automated Transfer Vehicles, that regularly resupply ISS.
- The Columbus Control Center at the German Aerospace Center 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 is located in Turin, Italy. It will be the mission control center for the ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin.
- Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre, mission control center in Krasnoznamensk, Russia.