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mission control

A centralized venue for managing some operation. The term was coined for the land-based control center of space vehicles. In 2011, Apple picked up the term when it combined several functions in its Mac operating system into one (see Lion). See NOC.
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Featuring a variety of challenges, including the abrasive characteristics of the basaltic regolith simulant, the weight and size limitations of the mining robot, and the ability to tele-operate it from a remote Mission Control Center, scoring during the competition included a number of factors such as autonomy, communications, dust tolerance and projection, power requirements, and vehicle mass.
Flight Controllers are specialized engineers and scientists who monitor and control space flight from the ground, in the Mission Control Center. Unlike Star Trek, this is where you could expect to find the Chief Medical Doctor, Chief Communications Officer, and the Chief Scientific Officer; they are all in the Mission Control Center.
Officials at NASA s Mission Control Center in Houston told a news briefing a fourth spacewalk, after next Monday s outing, may still be required before the cooling system is ramped back up and deemed fully operational.
On February 1, 2003, at Houston's Mission Control Center, the shuttle flight controllers lose contact with Columbia as it makes its descent.
Last July they happily left the air-conditioned glamour of Vegas' Flamingo Hotel and Casino, where the cream of the private space industry had gathered for the NewSpace 2006 conference, to spend a few hours at Bigelow's warehouse and mission control center. They couldn't have been more excited if the van had been on its way to a Star Trek-themed strip club.
They also hold technical jobs, such as working in the mission control center, developing procedures or helping to develop new spacecraft.
At NASA for 11 years since leaving active duty, Colonel Fossum works in the mission control center area as the voice link between the ground and space station crews.
Following completion of the manufacture and assembly of the major system elements, including the, first of two unmanned air vehicles, a mission control center and storage container, the system was recently previewed in a display in St.
The help desk is rapidly becoming the mission control center for enterprise systems management for many IT departments.
If any one of the monitored parameters should reach precarious levels, a graphic alarm icon is displayed on a geographic map of Biosphere 2 (located in the mission control center and the habitat where the Biospherians will live), indicating the approximate location of the system or sensor in alarm condition.
Although the flare probably posed less hazard to Galileo than will Jupiter's radiation belts, both Stone and project scientist Torrence Johnson of the mission control center at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena told SCIENCE NEWS they were pleased to find that the particle outburst neither permanently damaged the chips nor even once temporarily altered the settings that govern how they work.
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