The Main Control Room at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt today 🛰️

The Main Control Room at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt today ️

This room sees launches, landings, mission sims, & more, & has been the scene of some of the greatest days in ESA’s history (& mine).

The spacecraft the MCR talks to are in, err, space ‍️, but several have siblings at ESOC, engineering models with the same electronics & software, used to test procedures before uplinking to the real thing.

A few pictures below

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