One thing that is often overlooked at this point is the activity of planning for launch management. When spacecraft are launched, a plan of tracking has been carefully prepared. The space control center implements the tracking plan, seeking to spot every glitch that comes up during launch and hoping was so that a solution i on board, to use. products managers often do the same thing, sometimes formally but often very informally. The launch phase is covered in Part V, Chapters 16 through 20