Meaning & use
mission control
The facility and team that direct, monitor, and communicate with a spacecraft during a mission.
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Mission control confirmed the spacecraft had safely entered orbit around the moon.
Engineers at mission control worked through the night to fix a fault in the rover's software.
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Mission control is usually written as two words without a hyphen and typically takes a singular verb.
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