In preparation for our upcoming webinar on STK Display Enhancements this Thursday at 1:30 ET, I wanted to introduce some of the topics our presenter Jimmy Tucholski will cover. Jimmy is one of AGI’s lead developers and has been at … Continue reading
In preparation for our upcoming webinar on STK Display Enhancements this Thursday at 1:30 ET, I wanted to introduce some of the topics our presenter Jimmy Tucholski will cover. Jimmy is one of AGI’s lead developers and has been at … Continue reading
After more than a decade of consideration, on January 19 the Radiocommunication Assembly of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-R) decided to postpone its decision on whether to redefine Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) for another three years. The fate of the … Continue reading
The Space Foundation, perhaps best known to the general public for certifying space products that improve life on Earth, has selected AGI’s STK software as its newest Certified Educational Product partner. The Foundation had already named STK a Certified Space … Continue reading
On Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, NASA captured stunning images of the International Space Station (ISS) in Earth orbit passing directly in front of the moon. This unique alignment provided for some spectacular perspectives of the space station against the lunar … Continue reading
In November 2010, I sat in the New Orleans Convention Center on the final day of the GEOINT 2010 Symposium listening to General James Cartwright’s keynote address. He pointed out the continued need to support our folks who have been … Continue reading
The American Astronautical Society just published “Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation,” a book on the future of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the foundation for almost all clocks around the world. The book details the proceedings of a colloquium held … Continue reading
For the third time since September, eyes will be pointed skyward in early 2012 as yet another satellite falls to Earth. This time it is a Russian spacecraft—Phobos-Grunt—that became marooned in Low Earth Orbit when its Earth-escape engines failed to … Continue reading
Limiting Future Collision Risk to Spacecraft: An Assessment of NASA’s Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Program is a new book from the National Research Council that examines NASA’s efforts to understand the meteoroid and orbital debris environment, identifies what NASA is … Continue reading
The third maintenance release for STK 9.2 and related modules is now available. This new release features: • a new altitude constraint option for Area Target objects available through Connect • improvements for the STK/SEET module including: • a new Average … Continue reading