22-405: BMOC can refer to: Backup mission operations center , in spacecraft operations "Big Man on Campus", an American colloquialism for a popular high school or college boy involved in some high-profile activity, such as varsity sports or school government British Mathematical Olympiad Committee "B.M.O.C." ( The Cleveland Show ) , an episode of
44-501: Is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast , Russia , well known as the cradle of Soviet and Russian space exploration . As of the 2010 Census , its population was 183,402, the largest as a science city. As of 2018, the population was more than 222,000 people. It was known as Kaliningrad ( Калинингра́д ) from 1938 to 1996 and served as the leading Soviet center for production of anti-tank and air-defense guns. In 1946, in
66-500: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mission operations center A mission control center ( MCC , sometimes called a flight control center or operations center ) is a facility that manages space flights , usually from the point of launch until landing or the end of the mission. It is part of the ground segment of spacecraft operations. A staff of flight controllers and other support personnel monitor all aspects of
88-520: Is the place in which the first Youth Residential Complex in the Soviet Union was built. Another notable company located in the city is OAO Kompozit , which is engaged in the field of materials science. Today the city is prosperous overall. But in the Soviet-era economy , the city typified the wide contrasts and ironic juxtapositions that arose as some aspects of life were heavily funded by
110-782: The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston also manages the U.S. portions of the International Space Station (ISS). The Mission Control Center of the Russian Federal Space Agency ( Russian : Центр управления полётами ), also known by its acronym ЦУП ("TsUP") is located in Korolyov , near the RKK Energia plant. It contains an active control room for
132-556: The Moscow and Vladimir-Suzdal principalities. After the Mongol conquests in the 13th century, the region was in decline. The village of Podlipki had formed on the site by the 18th century, when one of the first textile factories in Russia was established there. From the late 19 century, Podlipki was also known as a dacha village frequented by many literali , as can be witnessed by
154-762: The Shenzhou missions. The building is inside a complex nicknamed Aerospace City. The city is located in a suburb northwest of Beijing. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California manages all of NASA's uncrewed spacecraft outside Earth's orbit and several research probes within along with the Deep Space Network from the Space Flight Operations Facility . Korolyov (city) Korolyov or Korolev (Russian: Королёв , IPA: [kərɐˈlʲɵf] )
176-433: The framework of administrative divisions , it is incorporated as Korolyov City Under Oblast Jurisdiction —an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division , Korolyov City Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as Korolyov Urban Okrug . In June 2014, Yubileyny, Moscow Oblast Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction was merged into Korolyov City Under Oblast Jurisdiction and on
198-661: The ISS. It also houses a memorial control room for the Mir where the last few orbits of Mir before it burned up in the atmosphere are shown on the display screens. The Mission Control Center of the Indian Space Research Organisation is located at Satish Dhawan Space Centre , Sriharikota, India. Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center is a command center for the Chinese space program which includes
220-751: The MCC. United States missions are, prior to liftoff, controlled from the Launch Control Center (LCC) located at NASA 's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida . Responsibility for the booster and spacecraft remains with the Launch Control Center until the booster has cleared the launch tower. After liftoff, responsibility is handed over to NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas (abbreviated MCC-H, full name Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center ), at
242-565: The U.S. TV series The Cleveland Show Big Man on Campus , a television series BMOC: Best Music On/Off Campus , 1961 album Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title BMOC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BMOC&oldid=1189801742 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732787848854264-511: The aftermath of World War II , the artillery plant was reconstructed for production of rockets , launch vehicles , and spacecraft , under the guidance of Soviet scientist and academician Sergei Korolev , who envisioned, consolidated and guided the activities of many people in the Soviet space-exploration program . The plant later became known as the RKK Energia ; when the Vostok space vehicle
286-560: The city was renamed in commemoration of Sergei Korolev , the father of the Soviet/Russian space program, who died in 1966. Since 1997, Korolyov has hosted the International Space Olympics , an annual competition for young people to promote space related research. In the 12th century, a Slavic settlement was located on the site of modern Korolyov. The settlement stood on a junction of trade routes between
308-434: The government while others remained chronically underfunded. Yuri Krotkov described in his 1967 memoir how, at the same time that advanced technology was being built for space rockets, the textile plants of old Podlipki went on for decades with nearly no improvement on their 1920s equipment, and starkly impoverished workers in various hard and glamourless jobs of prerevolutionary days crossed paths, sometimes resentfully, with
330-543: The implementation of the municipal reform , by 1 January 2006, Korolyov was granted the status of the Korolyov urban district as the only settlement within it. On 14 September 2014, the candidate from the United Russia party, Alexander Khodyrev , was elected head of Korolyov. The main enterprise of the city is the RKK Energia , but there are several kinds of industry in the city. This naukograd (science city)
352-442: The mission using telemetry , and send commands to the vehicle using ground stations . Personnel supporting the mission from an MCC can include representatives of the attitude control system , power , propulsion , thermal, attitude dynamics , orbital operations and other subsystem disciplines. The training for these missions usually falls under the responsibility of the flight controllers, typically including extensive rehearsals in
374-576: The municipal side, Yubileyny Urban Okrug was merged into Korolyov Urban Okrug. The town of Yubileyny ceased to exist as an independent entity. As of 1 January 2016, Korolyov was in 93 place out of 1112 cities in Russia based on demographics. On 2 June 2014, the city of Yubileniy officially became a part of Korolyov. With a total population of 220 thousand people, Korolyov became the third largest city in Moscow Oblast based on population after Balashikha (428,400 ) and Khimki (239 967 ). During
396-627: The name of Podlipki-Dachnye railway station . They later moved their dachas to Peredelkino in Moscow 's southwestern suburb, when Podlipki became a closed city of the Russian SFSR . In 1924, the first OGPU working commune in the Soviet Union was established at Podlipki. In 1938, the Kalininsky settlement near an artillery plant (which had previously been relocated from Leningrad to better protect it in case of any future war)
418-582: The plans instead, the official reason given was financial problems. Now Vympel only plays in the amateur league of Moscow Oblast . In 2014 a bandy federation for the city was founded. The area was a place of elite dachas at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. Many famous people, such as Konstantin Stanislavsky , Anton Chekhov , Valery Bryusov , Boris Pasternak , Anna Akhmatova , Isaac Levitan , Pavel Tretyakov , Marina Tsvetaeva and Vladimir Lenin , lived here. Korolyov
440-551: The skilled technicians and scientists, who were substantially better paid despite the slogans of Soviet ideology around the equal dignity of manual labourers . The bandy club Vympel has played in the Russian Bandy Supreme League , which is the second-highest division. Their home arena has a capacity of 10 000. A plan existed to equip the stadium with artificial ice, but the project has been abandoned. Although an indoor ice hockey-sized arena entered
462-462: Was being developed, this research center was designated as NII-88 or POB 989. Russian Mission Control Center is also located in Korolyov. Though the real control is decentralized due to security reasons and all space aircraft may be controlled from many different locations across Russia, the historic center of control is still in Korolev, and is called FCC – Flights Control Center. In July 1996,
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#1732787848854484-553: Was granted town status and named Kaliningrad (meaning Kalinin City, after Bolshevik leader Mikhail Kalinin ; not to be confused with the Baltic port city also renamed Kaliningrad after Mikhail Kalinin in 1946). Over the next three decades the town expanded greatly as a home of rocket manufacturing for both military missiles and the Soviet space program . As such it was a closed city to foreigners, who could not travel there. Within
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