Space center
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A space center is a place dedicated to space activity. It may be in public
or private ownership.
These activities may concern:
Public
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or private ownership.
These activities may concern:
- ResearchResearchResearch can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
- ManufacturingManufacturingManufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
of major parts of space vehicles - Launch of space vehicles
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control of space vehicles
Germany
- European Space Operations CentreEuropean Space Operations CentreThe European Space Operations Centre is responsible for controlling ESA satellites and space probes. The centre is located in Darmstadt, Germany. It is Mission Control for most of the space projects of the ESA. Since its creation in 1967, the centre has operated 60 European space missions...
- Hubble European Space Agency Information CentreHubble European Space Agency Information CentreThe Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre is a science communication office, established at the Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility in Munich, Germany late in 1999...
- European Astronaut CentreEuropean Astronaut CentreThe European Astronaut Centre is a centre of the European Space Agency and home of the European Astronaut Corps. It is located in Cologne, Germany, and is sub-divided in to four separate arms, these being Training, Medicine, Education and PR, and Astronaut Management...
India
- Vikram Sarabhai Space CentreVikram Sarabhai Space CentreThe Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is a major space research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation , focusing on rocket and space vehicles for India's satellite programme...
- Space Applications CentreSpace Applications CentreThe Space Applications Centre is an institution of research in Ahmedabad, India under the aegis of the Indian Space Research Organization...
- Satish Dhawan Space CentreSatish Dhawan Space CentreThe Satish Dhawan Space Centre is the launch centre for the Indian Space Research Organisation . It is located in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India, north of Chennai in South India. It was originally called Sriharikota High Altitude Range , and was sometime known as Sriharikota Launching Range...
Russia
- Babakin Space CentreBabakin Space CentreThe Babakin Science & Research Space Centre is a division of the Lavochkin Design Bearau, an avionics company based outside Moscow, and is managed by them on behalf of Roscosmos. It is named after Georgy N. Babakin, Chief Designer of the Lavochkin Association from 1965 to 1971....
- Baikonur CosmodromeBaikonur CosmodromeThe Baikonur Cosmodrome , also called Tyuratam, is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility. It is located in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, about east of the Aral Sea, north of the Syr Darya river, near Tyuratam railway station, at 90 meters above sea level...
- Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control CentreTitov Main Test and Space Systems Control CentreThe Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre is the main Russian military and commercial satellite control centre, responsible also for control of Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles...
United Kingdom
- Leicester Space Centre
- Surrey Space Centre
- Harwell Science and Innovation CampusHarwell Science and Innovation CampusThe Harwell Science and Innovation Campus is a science and technology campus near the villages of Harwell and Chilton, Oxfordshire, England. The site is about south of Oxford...
- Jodrell Bank Observatory
United States
- Goddard Space Flight CenterGoddard Space Flight CenterThe Goddard Space Flight Center is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. GSFC employs approximately 10,000 civil servants and contractors, and is located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA. GSFC,...
- John C. Stennis Space CenterJohn C. Stennis Space CenterThe John C. Stennis Space Center , located in Hancock County, Mississippi, at the Mississippi-Louisiana border, is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility.- History :...
- Kennedy Space CenterKennedy Space CenterThe John F. Kennedy Space Center is the NASA installation that has been the launch site for every United States human space flight since 1968. Although such flights are currently on hiatus, KSC continues to manage and operate unmanned rocket launch facilities for America's civilian space program...
- Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Space Center HoustonSpace Center HoustonSpace Center Houston is the official visitors' center of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center—the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's center for human spaceflight activities—located in Houston...
- Marshall Space Flight CenterMarshall Space Flight CenterThe George C. Marshall Space Flight Center is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. The largest center of NASA, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo moon program...
See also
- SPACe Centre (Hackney), in Hackney in London in England: a sports center, not a space center