National Space Facilities Control and Test Center

The National Space Facilities Control and Test Center (Ukrainian: Національний центр управління та випробувань космічних засобів, НЦУВКЗ, romanized: NCUVKZ) is a Ukrainian state institution subordinate to the State Space Agency of Ukraine that manages space flight operations, deep space research using its own technical facilities, space monitoring, geophysical monitoring, and testing of space technology. After the annexation of Crimea, the headquarters of the center (at one time called the Yevpatoria Deep Space Communications Center) moved from Yevpatoria to Kyiv.^[1]