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> The Main control room of the European Space Agency.

The Main control room of the European Space Agency.

author: ESA/Novapix

reference: e-eur90-10002

Image Size 300 DPI: 22 * 18 cm

The Main Control Room at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. The Main Control Room is a core element of ESA's general-purpose ESA Operations Control Centre the facilities of which provide all the necessary functions to handle spacecraft & ground-segment control, orbit & attitude determination, and data acquisition & processing. ESOC was founded on September 8, 1967, and has since been serving as ESA's control center for the operation of numerous satellites as well as the necessary ground stations and their related communication network.

Keywords for this photo:

COMPUTER - COMPUTER SCIENCE - CONTROL ROOM - ESA - ESOC - EUROPE - EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY - GERMANY - HUMAN - PERSON - SPACE -