STK Specialised Training

Auspace has access to scheduled development tools training provided by AGI in Exton, Pennsylvania, USA. Attendance at scheduled courses in Exton is subject to tuition fees payable to AGI.

Where required, Auspace can facilitate the conduct of AGI specialised training in Australia or New Zealand. Fees for such training will be on a cost recovery basis.

Specialised Training:

• Communications Systems Analysis with STK
• Introduction to Navigation Tool Kit
• Trajectory Design with STK/Astrogator
• Understanding Space Using STK
  

Communications Systems Analysis with STK

This is a two day hands on class which seeks to provide attendees with a comprehensive understanding of communications systems and how to accurately model communications analyses using STK. The Course includes:

STK/Communications

• Comm objects
• Transmitter properties: models and parameters
• Modulation schemes
• Receiver properties: models and parameters
• Antenna properties: models and parameters
• Simple link budget
• Polarization
• 2-D and 3-D graphics
• Comm constraints
• RF propagation
• Detailed link budget
• Bent pipe links: analog and digital transponders; multi-hop link analysis
• Comm analysis with STK/Coverage
• RF interference analysis
• Communication system: properties and graphics
• Power Spectral Density modelling
• Spectrum Filtering
• STK/Communications customization
• Comm plug-in models
  

DURATION:

Two Days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily (continental breakfast & lunch provided)

RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES:

STK Fundamentals and STK Comprehensive training. This is a fast-paced class intended for qualified aerospace, defence, or intelligence professionals and educators.

FORMAT:

Hands-on

Introduction to Navigation Tool Kit

This class consists of a one-day lecture on GPS fundamentals followed by a second day of hands-on Navigation Tool Kit training.

• Use the relevant data for your navigation analysis
• Set up a GPS performance monitoring scenario for a site
• Set up a DOP analysis for a region
• Create and analyse the appropriate data products (reports, graphs, & 2-D maps)
• Perform batch runs of scenarios
• Set up scenarios to be permuted
• Difference multiple scenario runs using the difference tool
  

DURATION:

Two days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily (continental breakfast & lunch provided)

RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES:

Basic navigation and GPS knowledge. This is a fast-paced class intended for qualified aerospace, defence, or intelligence professionals and educators.

FORMAT:

Hands-on

Trajectory Design with STK/Astrogator

AGI's four-day, hands-on STK/Astrogator course will familiarize students with the capabilities of the software for mission planning and operations. Attendees will create example scenarios that illustrate particular features and demonstrate fundamental STK/Astrogator concepts. Various types of missions, including LEO, GEO, libration point, and interplanetary, will be discussed. Participants will:

• Create and use Mission Control Sequences (MCS)
• Create and use different propagators
• Use the Astrogator Component Browser
• Create and use custom calculation objects
• Configure and use Astrogator targeting profiles
• Create their own custom MCS for use with other scenarios
  
• Use the launch segment to model a launch
• Target initial orbital parameters using launch and coast segments
• Create and use custom engine models
• Use impulsive and finite burn segments to plan manoeuvres
• Configure and use multiple stopping conditions and constraints
  
• Configure and use embedded Astrogator sequences
  

DURATION:

Four days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily (continental breakfast & lunch provided)

RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES:

STK Fundamentals training, basic knowledge of orbital mechanics concepts. This is a fast-paced class intended for qualified aerospace, defence, or intelligence professionals and educators.

FORMAT:

Hands-on

Understanding Space Using STK

If you are working in the space industry but don’t have an aerospace background, attend the "Understanding Space Using STK" three-day training. You’ll get a crash course from the experts who literally "wrote the book" on space system fundamentals, and learn how to use AGI’s analysis software STK in support of your space-related operations.

Teaching Science and Technology, Inc. (TSTI), co-authors of the textbook Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics lead the first two days, teaching key space mission concepts, including:

• The big space picture: why and how
• Space industry history and current trends
• Key orbital concepts, laws, and terms
• Interplanetary travel
• Payloads and spacecraft design
• Spacecraft subsystems and rockets
• AGI leads the third day with a hands-on introduction to STK specifically designed to correlate to the materials presented on the first two days. Highlights include:

Advanced analysis capabilities of the STK software suite
How to build a scenario and analyse results with reporting and graphing tools
Enhancing a scenario with real-world constraints
Viewing a scenario in 3D using STK/Advanced Visualization Option

DURATION:

Three Days

RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES:

None, however this is a fast-paced class intended for qualified aerospace, defence, and intelligence professionals and educators.

FORMAT:

Two days lecture, one day hands-on

"Understanding Space Using STK" training highlights:

Fundamentals of orbital mechanics from basic principles, through classical orbital elements, to the complexities of requirements interactions in orbit and constellation design

• Use of STK for teaching orbital mechanics
• Advanced analysis capabilities of the STK software suite
• How to build a scenario and analyse results with reporting and graphing tools
• Use features from AGI's STK add-on modules to enhance a scenario with real-world constraints
• View a scenario in 3D
• Simulate and communicate difficult technical information in an easy format for technical and non-technical audiences with STK