6-529: SFOF may refer to: Space Flight Operations Facility , a space control building in Pasadena, California Superior fronto-occipital fasciculus , a controversial nerve bundle in the brain Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title SFOF . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
12-523: A backup communications facility for Apollo missions. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985 and is on the National Register of Historic Places . Public tours are available with advance planning. In the early years, the operations control center of the Deep Space Network did not have a permanent facility. It was a makeshift setup with numerous desks and phones installed in
18-607: A large room near the computers used to calculate orbits. In July 1961, NASA started the construction of the permanent facility, Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF). The facility was completed in October 1963 dedicated on May 14, 1964. In the initial setup of the SFOF, there were 31 consoles, 100 closed-circuit television cameras, and more than 200 television displays to support Ranger 6 to Ranger 9 and Mariner 4 . As of 2012, there were 22 spacecraft monitored from this facility. Depending on
24-516: Is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , California . NASA's Deep Space Network is operated from this facility. The SFOF has monitored and controlled all interplanetary and deep space exploration for NASA and other international space agencies since 1964. The facility also acted as
30-425: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SFOF&oldid=979619972 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Space Flight Operations Facility The Space Flight Operations Facility ( SFOF )
36-474: The operations of the spacecraft, they are scheduled to be online for 1 to 10 hours at a time. Notable is that the facility also processes the signal from Voyager 1 that is sent from about 11 billion miles from Earth. With data feeding into the Space Flight Operations Facility from every NASA spacecraft beyond low Earth orbit, including rovers , orbiters , and deep-space probes , there is
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