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TheGerman Space Operations Center (GSOC;German:Deutsches Raumfahrt-Kontrollzentrum) is themission control center ofGerman Aerospace Center (DLR) inOberpfaffenhofen nearMunich,Germany.

The GSOC performs the following tasks in national and international spaceflight:

• Operation ofscientific satellites
• Operation of commercial satellites
• Operation ofhuman spaceflight
• Expansion and operation of the communication infrastructure
• Research and development of new technologies in the field of space operations

After theFederal Republic of Germany decided in the 1960s to launch a national space program and to participate in international space projects, the idea of having its own space control center became concrete. In 1967, then Federal Minister of FinanceFranz Josef Strauss laid the foundation stone for the first building complex, which was opened a little later.

Until 1985, the Oberpfaffenhofen site of the then German Aerospace Research and Testing Institute (DFVLR) increasingly concentrated on spaceflight. Thehuman spaceflight received special attention. The GSOC then accompanied two crewed missions: DuringSTS-61-A in 1985, GSOC took over the control of theSpacelab, while flight control continued fromNASA'sLyndon B. Johnson Space Center was acquired. For the first time, the Payload Operation Control Center (POCC) of a US space mission was directed outside of NASA. For the first time, a human spaceflight was partially monitored from outside the USA or the Soviet Union.^[1] During this mission, then Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss announced on 5 November 1985 an extensive investment program with which the role of Oberpfaffenhofen in European spaceflight should be increased.

The failure ofAriane 3 in 1985 and theChallenger disaster in 1986 slowed the development of the Oberpfaffenhofen and the GSOC. The investment program gave the GSOC a new building, Building 140. Construction began in April 1989.

In 1993, GSOC accompanied the entire operation withSTS-55 and had full payload control via the Spacelab. This was the first time that there was unfiltered access to all data.

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