Alright guys, the moment you’ve all been waiting for is now here! For those of you who are current customers you’ll be receiving your STK 9 disks in the mail. If you can’t wait for the disks to get there, you can visit the AGI Developer Network download section to download the install as well as STK 9 Engine, Planetary Data, Scheduler … you get the idea. If you are not a current customer but want to try STK 9, you can download it as well, and then get a demo license for the software. Once you’re demo license expires you’ll be left with STK Basic, which is free, and still very cool. For more information on the different versions of STK, click here. For those of you who are using my very favorite module, STK/Missile Modeling Tools (MMT), you will need to keep STK 8.1.3 in order to continue to use MMT. There is an STK 9 compatible version that will be released in the next few months that will have phenomenal updates especially to IFT and MDT (trust me on this; I’ve been playing around with it already). You can still install and use STK 9; you’ll just need to make sure you are running STK 8.1.3 when you run it. Those that are members of our Educational Alliance Program will unfortunately have to wait until the end of June/beginning of July. You will get your license when you renew for next year.

So now you know the release logistics, but what about resources? If you visit www.agi.com/whatsnew you can watch short videos on different updates and new functionality in this release. I highly recommend you watch the Interactive Reports video under the Improved Functionality section. That’s right, it’s narrated by me and involves a very cool missile defense scenario (an RV with an RCS  – access analysis, SNR analysis).  Also make sure you register for today’s “Enhancements In STK 9 Webinar,” hosted by AGI Product Manager Ronnie Allan. If you are reading this after May 26, 2009, you missed the live event, but you can still download and watch the webinar at www.agi.com/webinars.

Well that’s it for this time, go get STK 9 and your licenses and start playing with it right now!

Till Next Time,

Rocket Girl (aka Amanda)