Payload Operations And Integration Center
Also known as Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) or Payload Operations Center, it is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) facility that works in conjunction with the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Control Centers in Houston, Texas. The Payload Operations Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is the headquarters for International Space Station science operations. This Control Center links Earth-bound researchers and developers from around the world with their experiments and astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Here is a list of every day tasks for this center during the life of the International Space Station:
- Integrates research requirements
- Plans science missions
- Ensures the safe execution of science
- Integrates the crew and ground team training and research mission timelines
- Manages use of space station payload resources
- Handles science communications with the crew
- Manages commanding and data transmissions to and from the orbiting research center.
The Operations Center is staffed around the clock by three shifts of flight controllers.
Read more about Payload Operations And Integration Center: See Also
Famous quotes containing the words operations, integration and/or center:
“It may seem strange that any road through such a wilderness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)