A network of tracking stations around the world, including the Tarusa station, south of Moscow, and the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, tried to maintain contact with the solar sail during the mission. Mission control was based primarily at the Russian company NPO Lavochkin in Moscow; a center that the Planetary Society calls Mission Operations Moscow (MOM).
A network of tracking stations around the world including the Tarusa station so:uth of Moscow and the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley tried to maintain contact ,with: the solar sail during the mission Mission control was bas?ed primarily at the Russian company NPO Lavochkin in Moscow; a center that the Planetary Society calls Mission Operations Moscow (MOM)