How to Use mission control in a Sentence

mission control

noun

• In mission control, people gasped as the beak continued into the surface, which turned out to be soft.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• But the mission control team lost contact with the robotic vehicle just before it was supposed to touch down on the moon.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Apr. 2023
• Wiseman will be in charge of all that with the support of his three fellow astronauts and guidance from mission control.
  — Purbita Saha, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
• From that 90-mile perigee, mission control would command the rocket to fire a final time, pushing the station even farther down to fall over the South Pacific.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
• But then, as SpaceX mission control waited to hear a signal from Starship, there was only silence.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2023
• While the probe has continued to relay a steady radio signal to its mission control team on Earth over the past few months, the signal did not carry any usable data.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024
• On Friday, the mood in the mission control room was jubilant after the spacecraft’s successful trip to orbit was confirmed.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• The lander was boosted out of Earth’s orbit toward the moon over an hour later, at which point mission control took command of the craft, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
• But that eleven miles instead became zero miles when the speeding probe smashed into the Moon’s surface, causing mission control to lose contact.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
• One half of the screen showed ISRO engineers and officials waiting anxiously in the mission control room.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
• And even humans in mission control rooms back on Earth can’t help the spacecraft in those final, critical seconds before touchdown.
  — Kristin Fisher, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• Engineers at the spacecraft's mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany, are working to solve the issue.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2023
• Morris’ Pacific Palisades home became Hunter Biden’s mission control — and remains so to this day.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• The Canadian fighter pilot led ISS communications from mission control in 2011, but this will mark his first time in space.
  — Purbita Saha, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
• That forced engineers on the ground to figure out a way to download as much data as possible — an ongoing effort in mission control.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
• The astronauts even received an email from mission control alerting them about the foam strike on the eighth day of their mission, reassuring them there was no reason for alarm, according to NASA.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
• Morris’ Pacific Palisades home became Hunter Biden’s mission control — and remains to this day.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
• But before Starship could reach orbit, SpaceX mission control lost contact with it and stopped receiving data.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
• Sixteen minutes later, the spacecraft separated from the rocket’s upper stage, and a round of cheering and clapping erupted in the mission control center.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• The laser system will also be able to send and receive procedures, flight plans, voice messages and other communications between the Orion spacecraft and mission control on Earth.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 May 2023
• Formally called a Nova-C, the lander is a hexagonal cylinder with six legs that the space company has operated from a mission control center in Houston.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
• The space agency is working on a generative A.I. system that would let astronauts and mission control talk to vessels and perform experiments, reports the Guardian.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 26 June 2023
• But with the spacecraft’s ability to properly communicate still unclear, the celebration of clapping and high-fives in the mission control center was muted.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• The Intuitive Machines mission control center in Houston.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2024
• Confirmation of the successful landing triggered a celebration across India, both inside and outside the mission control center in Bangalore.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2023
• Isar Aerospace will have exclusive access to the first launch site, which was built to Isar's specifications, including a launch pad, payload integration facilities, and a mission control center.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
• And the platform could help astronauts and mission control quickly obtain information related to problems without scouring lengthy technical manuals.
  — Christopher Janaro, PCMAG, 26 June 2023
• Additionally, astronauts and mission control will be able to use the interface to quickly obtain relevant information, rather than digging through technical manuals.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 26 June 2023

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024