Space Flight Operations Facility
The Space Flight Operations Facility is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Historic building
- Description: Jet Propulsion Laboratory facility in Pasadena, California
- Also known as: “JPL Building 230” and “SFOF”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Research institute
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. Jet Propulsion Laboratory is situated 630 feet northeast of Space Flight Operations Facility.
Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator
Historic building
The Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator is a chamber for testing spacecraft in space-like conditions, including extreme cold, high radiation, and near-vacuum pressure. Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator is situated 650 feet north of Space Flight Operations Facility.
Flintridge Preparatory School
School
Flintridge Preparatory School, familiarly known as Flintridge Prep, or simply Prep, is a highly ranked coeducational day school for grades 7-12. Founded in 1933, it is located in La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Flintridge Preparatory School is situated 3,200 feet west of Space Flight Operations Facility.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Cañada Flintridge and Altadena.
La Cañada Flintridge
Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0.
La Cañada Flintridge is a city of about 20,000 people at the extreme northwest end of the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California.
Altadena
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Altadena is an unincorporated area, and census-designated place in the San Gabriel Valley and the Verdugos regions of Los Angeles County, California. Directly north of Pasadena, it is located approximately 14 miles from Downtown Los Angeles. Altadena is situated 2½ miles east of Space Flight Operations Facility.
Altacanyada
Hamlet
La Cañada Flintridge, commonly known as just La Cañada, is a city in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Altacanyada is situated 2½ miles northwest of Space Flight Operations Facility.
Space Flight Operations Facility
- Categories: mission control center, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.20088° or 34° 12′ 3″ northLongitude
-118.1744° or 118° 10′ 28″ westElevation
1,266 feet (386 metres)Inception
May 14th, 1964Height
83 feet (25 metres)Open location code
85636R2G+96OpenStreetMap ID
way 435381976OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingWikidata ID
Q7572351
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Space Flight Operations Facility” goes by many names.
- French: “California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
- German: “California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
- Indonesian: “Space Flight Operations Facility”
- Japanese: “宇宙飛行運用施設”
- Portuguese: “Caltech - Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
- Slovenian: “SFOF”
- Slovenian: “Space Flight Operations Facility”
- Slovenian: “Središče za operacije vesoljskih poletov”
- Spanish: “Instituto Tecnológico de California”
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