"The Vostochny will lift off spacecraft of the same designation as launched now from Baikonur. Therefore, the MCC-Korolyov will operate to control them," Itar-Tass learnt at the head organisation - Central Research Engineering Institute.
Under the plan, manned spaceships will fire off from the Vostochny cosmodrome from 2018 - at first to orbital stations and then to other planets.
The dress rehearsal of a future interplanetary mission already started this year: an international crew, participating in the 520-day experiment of a flight imitation to Mars (Mars-500) contacts "the earth" via the MCC-Korolyov.
The Mission Control Centre was set up on October 3, 1960 in Podlipki (now Korolyov science city), Moscow Region, as a specialised computer centre on processing and alphanumeric display of information, coming from spacecraft.
The MCC-Korolyov has become a brand over the past 50 years, known far outside Russia. It ensures practical control over flight of spacecraft of various classes: manned orbital systems, spaceships, automatic interplanetary stations and satellites of scientific and socio-economic designation.
The Mission Control Centre, a major subdivision of the Central Research Engineering Institute, conducts research, develops methods, algorithms and means for resolving control tasks, ballistics and navigation of spacecraft.
The centre's competence includes processing, examination and storage of big volumes of information, creation of high-speed networks to exchange all types of information as well as systems of collective and individual alphanumeric display.
Over the past 50 years, the MCC ensured control over orbital stations Salyut-6, Salyut-7 and Mir, the Buran shuttle, the automatic stations Luna, Venera, Mars, Vega and Fobos.
Its main task now is work under the programme of the International Space Station, involving 16 countries. Besides, the MCC controls some spaceships of scientific and socio-economic designation as well as participates in the international projects Sea Launch and Mars-500.