Space Flight Operations Facility

The Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF) is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

[4] 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 a large room near the computers used to calculate orbits.

[6] 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 a plaque in the middle of the room designating the facility "The Center of the Universe.

This article about a property in Los Angeles County, California on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.

The Center of the Universe plaque
panaorama of the SFOF from the center of the room between the Cassini and Curiosity mission control consoles
panaorama of the SFOF from the center of the room between the Cassini and Curiosity mission control consoles