Large Control Room

The control rooms of the Microgravity User Support Centre (MUSC) are located at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) site in Cologne. Two control rooms designed for the operation of scientific space facilities have been set up in the MUSC building. These control rooms are equipped with standardised infrastructure and are configured according to mission requirements. The equipment provided as standard includes communication interfaces with ISDN access and secure web access via firewall technology, a separate office communications network area, a video conferencing system, air-conditioned computer rooms, a multimedia wall, a conference room and uninterrupted power networks. The Large Control Room hosts 20 workstations for the monitoring and control of various International Space Station (ISS) systems. The standard control room infrastructure is supplemented with specific communication tools provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, in particular the CD-MC S and TreK telemetry/telecommand systems, the HRDP data archiving system, OSTPV information and planning software, and audio systems for connecting to the international ground- and flight-based segments of the ISS.