A fully functional ground control does not need to look like the ones at ESA or NASA. Image Source: Schoklitsch - TU Graz
A fully functional ground control does not need to look like the ones at ESA or NASA. Image Source: Schoklitsch - TU Graz By Falko Schoklitsch At TU Graz, satellites are developed, built and supported during their mission. A foray through the ground control and other necessary infrastructure with Manuela Wenger. A large, high room with huge screens, where dozens of people sit in front of their computers and keep an eye on the data relevant to them - this is more or less how we know an ESA or NASA ground control from television broadcasts of large rocket launches. The ground control of the Institute for Communication Networks and Satellite Communication at TU Graz shows that operating successful satellite missions does not have to be quite so pompous. Admittedly, no rockets take off from here, but for the history of Austria as a space nation it is a very significant place. After all, the first Austrian satellite was built in the same building and its first signals from Earth orbit were also received here.
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