A whole new user experience is in store
for aerospace, defense, and intelligence professionals who currently benefit
from the Satellite Tool Kit® (STK) software suite’s powerful analysis and
visualization capabilities. Today at the AIAA World Space Congress, Analytical
Graphics, Inc. (AGI) announced the first beta release of the next generation
of STK. STK version 5.0 Beta is being distributed to all interested users for
the purpose of gathering feedback and enabling a seamless upgrade to the
official release of STK 5.0 in the spring of 2003.
The STK 5.0 experience is designed to enable users to use STK “their way”
with a new graphical user interface (GUI) based on familiar Microsoft®
Windows® standards; an open architecture to support customization and
integration with other software packages; and an HTML interface that promotes
customized, task-oriented work flows. In addition, STK 5.0 Beta’s
architectural enhancements will help AGI provide more rapid delivery of new
features and products based on their customers’ needs.
“STK 5.0 Beta represents the first step in STK’s transition to a new
software architecture,” says Francesco Linsalata, AGI chief operating officer.
“While this software evolution continues to utilize the same powerful geometry
engine that STK users have come to depend upon, our new interface architecture
simplifies customization of STK using HTML and standard scripting tools. All
in all, STK will now be an even more easily adaptable, integrated solution.”
Users are encouraged to join the beta community by visiting
www.stk.com/beta and requesting a free STK 5.0 Beta CD-ROM. Beta testers
receive evaluation licenses to all key STK analysis and visualization modules.
Those who offer feedback are eligible to win prizes.
Malvern, PA-based AGI offers commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) analysis and
visualization software to more than 28,000 aerospace, defense, and
intelligence industry professionals through its core product Satellite Tool
Kit® (STK) and a comprehensive set of STK add-on modules. With integrated
land, sea, air, and space elements, the STK software suite technology is ideal
for all phases of complex industry programs from system concept and design to
real-time operations.
Basic STK applications include calculating and visualizing a vehicle’s
position and attitude, determining acquisition times, and analyzing its field
of view. STK functionality can be extended with add-on modules that support
specialized tasks including 3-D battlespace visualization, communications link
analysis, collision avoidance, maneuver planning, real-time data interfacing,
high-fidelity missile modeling, GIS analysis, attitude simulation, orbit
determination, and coverage assessment.
For additional information about the STK 5.0 Beta release, the entire STK
software suite, or AGI, please visit www.stk.com.
