mission control

How to use mission control in a sentence

• On February 18, when the Perseverance rover descends toward the Martian surface, mission control will have no clue whether it succeeded or failed until after the fact.

  NASA’s Perseverance rover is about to start searching for life on Mars | Neel Patel | February 17, 2021 | MIT Technology Review

• And, for the first time, NASA handed over mission control to a private company.

  The most daring aerospace innovations of 2020 | By Rob Verger and Charlie Wood | December 2, 2020 | Popular-Science

• Astronauts need to talk to mission control, ideally by video communication, and space vehicles need to send back data they gather, preferably at high speed and with little delay as possible.

  To Boldly Go Where No Internet Protocol Has Gone Before | Susan D'Agostino | October 21, 2020 | Quanta Magazine

• In the middle of the night on Monday, the two cosmonauts and one astronaut on the International Space Station were woken up by a call from mission control.

  Astronauts on the ISS are hunting for the source of another mystery air leak | Neel Patel | September 30, 2020 | MIT Technology Review

• Another 150 team members around the world played the “Earth” team during those two weeks, sending commands from remote mission control and receiving data as it would appear coming from the real rover.

  To rehearse Perseverance’s mission, scientists pretended to be a Mars rover | Lisa Grossman | July 29, 2020 | Science News