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4 unusual facts about Systems Tool Kit


STK

Systems Tool Kit (formerly Satellite Tool Kit), an astrodynamics computer program from Analytical Graphics, Inc.

Systems Tool Kit

AGI states that STK has more than 40,000 installations at more than 800 global organizations such as NASA, ESA, CNES, DLR, Boeing, JAXA, ISRO, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, EADS, DOD, and Civil Air Patrol.

Users on Windows have the option of using STK programatically via OLE Automation.

STK has also been used by various news organizations to graphically depict current events to a wider audience, including the deorbit of Russia's Mir Space Station, the Space Shuttle Columbia diasaster, the Iridium/Cosmos collision, the asteroid 2012 DA-14 close approach and various North Korea missile tests.



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