Virtual control of air traffic

摘要

One day it depicts San Francisco International Airport; the next, the control center for unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs). A week later it may look out on the surface of Mars, operating NASA's next generation of robots as they roll across an alien plain. Even then, the possibilities for NASA's FutureFlight Central (FFC) will barely have been touched. "FFC can be anything that can be seen out a window and depicted in computer graphics or some kind of video feed," says facility manager Nancy Dorighi.