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One system, one owner
Every part of an operation’s state should sit in a view where somebody would notice it change. Coverage beats sophistication: an elegant metric nobody watches is worth less than a plain one somebody owns.
About
Named for a room in Houston.
MOCR — Mission Operations Control Room — was NASA’s name for the rooms in Building 30 from which Gemini and Apollo flights were controlled. We borrowed it, because the job has the same shape. We make no claim to have coined it.
01 / The name
The room was four tiers of consoles under a map screen. Nobody in it watched everything. Each controller owned one system and watched only that, and the room as a whole knew the state of the vehicle because every part of that state belonged to someone who would notice it move.
Its other habit matters more. The hard decisions were written down before the mission, while there was time to think — the conditions under which you continue, and the conditions under which you stop. When the moment came, the room was not forming a judgement under pressure. It was executing one it had already made calmly, and polling each console in turn to confirm the evidence still supported it.
That is the argument of this company, transposed. A trading operation is a complex system running in real conditions, and it deserves the same treatment: every part of its state owned and visible, and the decision to stop written down before the drawdown rather than during it.
02 / Attribution
To be unambiguous: the name is NASA’s, not ours. The Mission Operations Control Rooms were built in 1965 at what was then the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, and ran Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab flights, before the rooms were reconfigured for the Shuttle era. MOCR 2, the room from which Apollo 11 was flown, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985 and has since been restored to its Apollo-era configuration. The facility now carries the name of Christopher C. Kraft Jr., NASA’s first flight director.
We use the term as a homage to a standard of operational practice. We are not affiliated with NASA, and imply no endorsement by it.
Manned Space Operations — MOCR history Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center
03 / Principles
What we took from it.
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Decide in the calm
The conditions for continuing and for stopping are written before the run, not argued during it. Criteria invented after the result are how a losing configuration keeps its job.
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Your room, not ours
The platform is licensed into your environment and reads from your systems. Your data and order flow stay inside your perimeter. Nothing here requires you to trust us with the operation itself.
04 / Corporate structure
Two companies, clearly separated.
Counterparties ask, so we set it out plainly rather than leaving it to be discovered at Companies House.
- MOCR Ltd
- The operating company. Develops and licenses the MOCR
platform, and holds the commercial relationships. This is the contracting
entity for all software and integration engagements.
Registered in England & Wales, No. 09220475 - Aquarius Technologies Ltd
- Proprietary trading. Currently dormant. Established to hold
any future proprietary trading activity, kept structurally separate from the
software business so that client and proprietary interests cannot be confused.
Registered in England & Wales, No. 07928606 - Registered office
- Both companies at 6 Cresswell Park, London SE3 9RD, United Kingdom.
- Scope of activity
- MOCR Ltd supplies software and technical services only. It does not trade on behalf of clients, hold client money or assets, provide investment advice, or carry out any regulated activity.
Diligence
Ask us the hard questions early.
Architecture documentation, security materials and structure detail are available to counterparties under NDA.