STK Comprehensive Training

STK Comprehensive Training is a week-long collection of hands-on, instructor-led exercises that will familiarize attendees with a variety of STK features and functions for analysing and determining optimal solutions for complex national security and space scenarios. Each day of the course is designed so students can analyse and view scenarios that highlight different aspects and applications of the software. Various real world problems are presented and solved.

STK Comprehensive Training Syllabus

• Monday: STK Fundamentals
• Tuesday: Designing Mission Environments
• Wednesday: Analysing Mission Situations
• Thursday: Optimizing Mission Situations
• Friday: Reporting Mission Results

DURATION:

Five sequenced training days from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily (continental breakfast & lunch provided)

RECOMMMENDED PREREQUISITES:

Prior STK Fundamentals training (if not attending STK Fundamentals day). This is a fast-paced course attended for qualified aerospace, defence, and intelligence professionals and educators.

FORMAT:

Hands-on

Monday: Free “STK Fundamentals” Training (optional)

This training will familiarize first-time users with the Graphical User Interface (GUI); introduce them to various land, sea, air, and space objects, along with their associated properties and tools; and leave them with a basic understanding of STK software suite capabilities. The free STK Basic Edition, as well as the more advanced software products, will be utilized. User will learn how to create objects in STK, customize graphical views, and create data reports and graphs. Attendees will learn how to take a basic STK scenario and continually add layers of detail to the analysis by focusing on an assortment of real world problems.

Tuesday: Designing Mission Environments

This training will build upon “STK Fundamentals”, teaching you to assess and adaptively plan operations using quantitative analysis of the positions and attributes of thousands of assets. Expand your knowledge of mission scenario design for land, sea, air, and space objects; expand on their properties; and fully develop the environment in which your assets reside. Topics that will be discussed in detail include designing mission environments using terrain and imagery utilizing the Vector Geometry Tool, altering object routes, and creating custom aircraft flight paths.

Wednesday: Analysing Mission Situations

Building on the “Designing Mission Environments” class; the “Analysing Mission Situations” class will teach you how to accurately model, analyse, assess, and plan all aspects of a mission, including attitude simulation, communications platforms, weather analysis, and global and custom ground and object coverage.

Thursday: Optimizing Mission Situations

Building on the “Analysing Mission Situations” training, this class will teach you how to model, analyse, assess, plan, and optimize missions via orbit optimization, ground station placement, optimal sensor scanning, connecting to external applications, and real-time analysis.

Friday: Reporting Mission Results

Building on the “Optimizing Mission Situations” training, this class further analyses the software’s output capabilities. Users will design custom reports and graphs; create still image outputs; review 3-D model files; and produce and refine 2-D and 3-D movies and AGI Viewer file outputs.

Note:

Training is intended for qualified aerospace, defence, and intelligence professionals and educators.