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Loading contentThe operational infrastructure behind every mission — the control centres and the functions that fly spacecraft, from mission control and flight dynamics to fault protection and the operations lifecycle. Built on real NASA, ESA, and agency data; nothing is fabricated.
NASA's nerve centre for deep-space missions, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. From the SFOF, controllers command and monitor spacecraft across the Solar System through the Deep Space Network.
The team and facility that command and monitor a spacecraft in real time — the heart of mission operations, staffed by controllers each responsible for a subsystem.
The discipline of determining and predicting a spacecraft's orbit and attitude, and computing the manoeuvres needed to keep it on its planned trajectory.
The operational process of guiding a spacecraft to its target — combining orbit determination with manoeuvre design, using the deep-space network's radiometric tracking.