目前,美空军正在帕特森空军基地附近进行四项工程,它们将用来指挥和控制几种军事卫星系统和保密的军事航天飞机飞行。这一需要十二亿美元的复杂设施叫做统一航天操作中心(CSOC),预期该中心从1987年开始控制国防部的某些卫星系统,起码要到1992年才能指挥航天飞机的飞行。CSOC 中心的工作可以一分为二,一个是卫星操作中心(SOC),专用于卫星的指挥和控制;另一个是航天飞机操作和计划中心(SOPC), Currently, the U.S. Air Force is carrying out four projects near Patterstooth Air Force Base, which will be used to command and control several military satellite systems and secure military space shuttle flights. The $ 1.2 billion complex, called CSOC, is expected to control some of Defense’s satellite systems from 1987, at least until 1992 to command the space shuttle. The work of the CSOC center can be split into two parts, one is the Satellite Operations Center (SOC) dedicated to satellite command and control and the other is the Space Shuttle Operations and Planning Center (SOPC)