Mission control center

;America

• NASA Launch Control Center controls NASA launch missions prior to liftoff from facilities located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida.{{cite web|title=Launch Control Center|url=http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/sts-lcc.html|publisher=NASA|access-date=7 September 2011}} Responsibility for the booster and spacecraft remains with the Launch Control Center until the booster has cleared the launch tower.
• Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center assumes responsibility for crewed missions after liftoff. The facility (abbreviated MCC-H, full name Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center) is located 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 (ISS).
• 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.
• Multi-Mission Operations Center at the Ames Research Center{{cite web|title=Multi-Mission Operations Center - NASA’s Mission Control in Silicon Valley |url=https://www.nasa.gov/mmoc/ |website=NASA|access-date=March 8, 2025}}
• The Space Flight Operations Facility is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California and manages all of NASA's uncrewed spacecraft outside Earth's orbit and several research probes within along with the Deep Space Network.{{Cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Space Flight Operations Facility|url={{NHLS url|id=85002814}} |format=pdf|date=May 15, 1984 |author=Harry A. Butowsky |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NHLS url|id=85002814|title=Accompanying photos, exterior and interior, from 1976, 1981, and 1983|photos=y}} {{small|(32 KB)}}
• Space Telescope Operations Control Center (STOCC) is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and provides mission control for the Hubble Space Telescope.{{cite web|title=Hubble Space Telescope - Mission Operations|date=April 2023

|url=https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/hst_mission_operations_fact_sheet.pdf|website=NASA|access-date=March 8, 2025}}

• 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.
• The Multimission Operations Center at the Applied Physics Laboratory near Baltimore, Maryland controls spacecraft including the MESSENGER and New Horizons missions.{{cite web|title=Space Labs and Facilities|url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/work/impact/space-science-and-engineering/facilities|website=JHAPL|access-date=March 9, 2025}}{{cite news|title=Pluto Flyby Success! NASA Probe Phones Home After Epic Encounter|url=http://www.space.com/29946-pluto-flyby-success-nasa-new-horizons.html|work=Space.com}}
• NOAA operates its constellation of satellites from the Satellite Operations Control Center (SOCC) at Suitland, Maryland and Command and Data Acquisition (CDA) facilities at Wallops, Virginia and Fairbanks, Alaska. Satellites controlled include JPSS and GOES.{{cite web|title=Satellite Operations|url=https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/operational-satellites/|website=NOAA|access-date=March 8, 2025}}
• The Canadian Space Agency Robotics Mission Control Centre in Longueuil, Quebec plans and conducts Canadarm and Dextre operations at the International Space Station.{{cite web|title=Robotics Mission Control Centre|url=https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/iss/robotics/robotics-mission-control-centre.asp|website=Canadian Space Agency|access-date=March 9, 2025}}
• The Centro de Operações Espaciais (COPE) is operated by the Brazilian Armed Forces to support government satellites in orbit. Two Space Operations Centers (COPEs) are part of its structure: the main center (COPE-P) in Brasília and the secondary center (COPE-S) in Rio de Janeiro.{{cite web|title=Brazil hosts the Global Sentinel 25 Mid-Planning Conference |author=Brett Anderson|date=January 14, 2025|url=https://www.spaceforces-space.mil/Newsroom/Article/4028512/brazil-hosts-the-global-sentinel-25-mid-planning-conference/|access-date=March 9, 2025}}

;Asia

• Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center is a command center for the Chinese space program which includes the Shenzhou missions. The building is inside a complex nicknamed Aerospace City. The city is located in a suburb northwest of Beijing.
• The Master Control Facility of the Indian Space Research Organisation is located at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India.
• JEM Control Center and the HTV Control Center at the Tsukuba Space Center (TKSC) 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.

;Europe

• European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) is responsible for ESA's satellites and space probes. It is located in Darmstadt, Germany.{{cite web|title=About ESOC|url=https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESOC|website=ESA|access-date=March 8, 2025}}
• 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.{{cite web|title=Columbus Control Centre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany |url=https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Columbus/Columbus_Control_Centre_Oberpfaffenhofen_Germany |publisher=ESA|access-date=March 8, 2025}}
• Europe's Galileo global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is operated by two Galileo Control Centres (GCC) situated in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and Fucino, Italy.{{cite web|title=Galileo System|url=https://www.gsc-europa.eu/galileo/system|website=European GNSS Service Centre|access-date=March 9, 2025}}
• 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.{{cite web|title=Automated Transfer Vehicle Control Centre |url=https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/ATV/ATV_Control_Centre|publisher=ESA|access-date=March 8, 2025}}
• The Rover Operations Control Centre (ROCC) is located in Turin, Italy. It will be the mission control center for the ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin.{{cite web|title=A European mission control for the martian rover|url=http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/ExoMars/A_European_mission_control_for_the_martian_rover|publisher=ESA|access-date=3 June 2019}}

;Russia

• The Mission Control Center of the Russian Federal Space Agency ({{langx|ru|Центр управления полётами}}), also known by its acronym ЦУП ("TsUP") 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.
• Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre, mission control center in Krasnoznamensk, Russia.

• Axiom Space Mission Control Center (MCC-A) in Houston, Texas.{{cite web|title=NSSDCA Spacecraft Axiom 1

|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2022-037A|website=NASA|access-date=March 9, 2025}}

• Boeing Satellite Development Center (SDC) Mission Control Center{{cite web|url=http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bss/factsheets/mcc/mcc_factsheet.html |access-date=December 17, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230202522/http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bss/factsheets/mcc/mcc_factsheet.html |archive-date=December 30, 2008|title=Satellite Mission Control Center}} in El Segundo, California, US. In charge of several military satellites.
• The Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) space operations center in Tromsø, Norway performs command and control for 13 satellites.{{cite news|title=KSAT expands role in satellite operations|author=Debra Werner|date=February 5, 2025|url=https://spacenews.com/ksat-expands-role-in-satellite-operations/|publisher=Space News|access-date=March 8, 2025}}
• Lockheed Martin A2100 Space Operations Center (ASOC){{cite web|url=http://www.lockheedmartin.com/ssc/CommercialSpace/Facilities.html |access-date=December 17, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225110021/http://www.lockheedmartin.com/ssc/CommercialSpace/Facilities.html |archive-date=December 25, 2008|title=World Class Satellites and Facilities}} in Newtown, Pennsylvania, US. In charge of several military satellites.
• Parsons Corporation operates the Parsons Space Operations Center (PSOC) in Colorado Springs, Colorado{{cite news|title=Parsons launches space ops center|author=Loren Blinde |date=February 15, 2023|url=https://intelligencecommunitynews.com/parsons-launches-space-ops-center/|publisher=Intelligence Community News|access-date=March 8, 2025}} to support command and control for the NOAA POES{{cite web|title=Parsons Takes Over 3 NOAA Satellites’ Operations Under GSaaS Contract

|date=November 30, 2023|author=Arthur McMiler|url=https://potomacofficersclub.com/parsons-corp-s-colorado-springs-facility-has-taken-over-full-operations-of-three-spacecraft-of-the-noaas-polar-satellite-fleet-under-a-ground-station-as-a-service-contract/ |website=Potomac Officers Club|access-date=March 8, 2025}} and DARPA Blackjack satellite programs.{{cite news|title=Parsons to develop ground operations center for DARPA’s Blackjack satellites|author=Sandra Erwin|date=December 11, 2021|url=https://spacenews.com/parsons-to-develop-prototype-ground-operations-center-for-darpas-blackjack-satellites/

|publisher=Space News|access-date=March 8, 2025}}

• Satellite operator SES controls its fleet of more than 50 satellites from operations centers in both Princeton, New Jersey and Luxembourg.{{cite web|title=SES Unveils New Satellite Operations Center|date=July 31, 2014|url=https://www.ses.com/press-release/ses-unveils-new-satellite-operations-center|website=SES|access-date=March 8, 2025}}
• Space Systems/Loral Mission Control Center in Palo Alto, California, US.{{cite web|url=http://www.ssloral.com/html/aboutssl/overview.html |access-date=December 17, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313023125/http://www.ssloral.com/html/aboutssl/overview.html |archive-date=March 13, 2009|title=Space Systems/Loral Overview}}
• SpaceX Mission Control Center (MCC-X) in Hawthorne, California is the primary launch control facility for the company's Falcon rockets.{{cite news|title=31 hours inside SpaceX Mission Control|author=David W. Brown | publisher=New York Times |date=Jan 17, 2023

|url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/business/31-hours-inside-spacex-mission-control/article_07587466-8ba0-11ed-8742-2b25cfec2892.html|access-date=March 8, 2025}}

• Control room
• Ground segment
• Launch status check

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