Editing Cosmos 1 (section)

=== Tracking ===
The craft would have been visible to the [[naked eye]] from most of the Earth's surface: the planned orbit had an [[Orbital inclination|inclination]] of 80°, so it would have been visible from [[latitude]]s of up to approximately 80° north and south.

A network of tracking stations around the world, including the [[Tarusa]] station, {{cvt|121|km}} 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).