German Space Operations Center, Mission control center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

The German Space Operations Center is a mission control facility near Munich that manages national and international space missions. Eight operational control rooms coordinate different missions, with the largest room, K1, dedicated to Launch and Early Orbit Phase operations.

The facility emerged from Germany's decision in the 1960s to participate in international space projects, with construction beginning in 1967. It became the first facility outside NASA to take control of operations when it directed Payload Operation Control during a major shuttle mission in 1985.

The name is simply the German for "German Space Operations Center"; the site is in Oberpfaffenhofen, part of Weßling, not Munich itself. Since 2005 a separate Columbus control room has run European experiments on the ISS, and one of the two Galileo control centres sits on the same DLR grounds, operated with the site in Fucino, Italy.

The control rooms sit in the DLR site at Oberpfaffenhofen, in the municipality of Weßling southwest of Munich. Ground stations in Weilheim, Neustrelitz, Inuvik and at Cape Legoupil support the missions, and an 80-cm telescope forms the optical station on site. Access to the control rooms is not public; group visits to the DLR site must be arranged in advance.

On the DLR campus at Oberpfaffenhofen, a second control center operates alongside GSOC: one of the two Galileo Control Centers, run by the DLR company for space applications (GfR). It works in permanent operation together with the Galileo control center in Fucino, Italy; the two first prepared operation of the test satellite GIOVE-A.