Space: Operational management of unmanned missions

The media reports about the missions of space agencies, in which telescopes on spacecraft produce incredible images of galaxies with their stars and planets and scientists gain new insights into the formation and structure of the universe. But how do such missions come about and how do they work? Who are the people who make these missions possible and who carry them out? The author Nebil Çinar works as a spacecraft controller for the European Space Agency (ESA) and controls four such missio...