AGI Training Classes

AGI Training Classes Expand for detailed descriptions:
(Free at AGI Locations)

STK Fundamentals Training
This training will familiarize first-time users with the STK workflow; introduce them to modeling objects; and leave them with a basic understanding of STK software suite capabilities.

During the one-day course, you will receive a guided tour through STK Basic Edition software:

  • Learn how to build a scenario and analyze results with reporting and graphing tools
  • Use features from STK add-on modules to enhance the scenario with real-world constraints
  • View the scenario in 3D

COST: Free
DURATION: One Day, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Continental Breakfast & Lunch provided)
RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES: None
FORMAT: Hands-on

STK Comprehensive Training
STK Comprehensive Training Syllabus

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

COST: FREE at select AGI offices; Contact AGI for a price quote for other locations
DURATION: Five training days from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily (breakfast & lunch provided)
RECOMMMENDED PREREQUISITES: Microsoft windows experience/general comfort with computer usage

Note: All attendees receive a voucher for 50% off STK Certification.

Monday: Free "STK Fundamentals" Training
This training will familiarize first-time users with the STK workflow; introduce them to modeling objects; and leave them with a basic understanding of STK software suite capabilities.

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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; expand on their properties; and fully develop the environment in which your assets reside.

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Wednesday: Analyzing Mission Situations
Building on the "Designing Mission Environments" class; this class will teach you how to accurately model, analyze, assess, and plan all aspects of a mission, including attitude simulation, communications platforms, weather analysis, and global and custom ground and object coverage.

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Thursday: Optimizing Mission Situations
Building on the "Analyzing Mission Situations" training, this class will teach you how to model, analyze, assess, plan, and optimize missions via orbit optimization, ground station placement, optimal sensor scanning, connecting to external applications, and real-time analysis.

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Friday: Reporting Results
Building on the "Optimizing Missions" training, this class further analyzes 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.

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Customizing STK - STK Integration and the STK Engine NEW!
The Customizing STK training serves as an introduction to custom integration with STK and the STK Engine. Students will explore basic STK concepts, the integration of STK with other applications, and the development of custom applications using the STK Engine. Other development tools that are covered in this training include creating UI Plugins, RT3 development, Plugins, the Custom Application Framework, and more.

COST: Free
DURATION: Four days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily (continental breakfast & lunch provided)
RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES:

  • Previous programming experience is mandatory
  • Basic understanding of Microsoft COM

Course Outline:
  Day One: STK Fundamentals
  Day Two: Integration with STK (AGI's API's: Connect and the Object Model)
  Day Three: Extensions of STK (RT3 development, UI Plugins & STK Plugins)
  Day Four: Customizations of STK (STK Engine and the Custom Application Framework)

NEW! Custom Applications Using AGI's Component Technology

This class is a NEW, EXPANDED training course on AGI's Component Technology. Students will explore the fundamentals behind using the AGI Components in their aerospace/defense applications. They will then use the component libraries to incorporate them into their custom applications. Students will explore the foundation library (Dynamic Geometry Library) as well as the 3D visualization library (Insight 3D) and all of the other released Component Libraries.

COST: Free
DURATION: Three days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily (continental breakfast and lunch provided daily).

RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES:

  • Previous programming experience
  • Basic understanding of Microsoft .NET

Course Outline:

  • Day One: Introduction to AGI Components (Aero/Astro Introduction and the Dynamic Geometry Library)
  • Day Two: Extension Libraries (Insight 3D, Navigation, and Spatial Libraries)
  • Day Three: Extension Libraries (Terrain, Communications and Tracking Libraries)
Specialized Training
Communications Systems Analysis with STK
This is a two day hands on class which seeks to provide attendees with a comprehensive understanding of the communications systems in STK, by utilizing examples that show how to accurately model these systems and perform communications analyses in STK. The course includes topics such as:

STK/Communications

  • Model transmitters and receivers
  • Modulation schemes
  • Simple and detailed link budgets
  • Polarization
  • 2-D and 3-D graphics
  • Comm constraints
  • RF propagation and interference analysis
  • Bent pipe links: analog and digital transponders; multi-hop link analysis
  • Comm analysis with STK/Coverage
  • Power Spectral Density modeling
  • Spectrum Filtering
  • Plug-in models and customization

DURATION: Two Days, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily (breakfast & lunch provided)
RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES: STK Fundamentals and STK Comprehensive training.

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.

  • Set up a GPS performance monitoring scenario for a site
  • Set up a DOP analysis for a region
  • Create and analyze 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 (breakfast & lunch provided)
RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES: Basic navigation and GPS knowledge.

STK/Missile Modeling Tools (STK/MMT)
STK/Missile Modeling Tools (STK/MMT)
This training is intended for designers and analysts of ballistic missiles, kinetic interceptors, sensor systems, and integrated missile defense architectures; STK/MMT simulates threat trajectories, intercept engagements, and defense system performance.

This course will build upon “STK Fundamentals” by teaching students how to design custom missiles, simulate missile trajectories, assess intercept feasibility, import external attitude and ephemeris, and perform automated trade studies with STK/Analyzer.

Integrated Tools Covered: STK/MMT

DURATION: One day; 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (Continental Breakfast & Lunch provided)
RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES: STK Fundamentals training or STK experience is required.

  • Design your own missile and integrate within STK for analysis
  • Model a missile flight and integrate within STK for analysis
  • Convert legacy trajectories into a format used by STK
  • Build a defense system to intercept a threatening missile
  • Use STK/Analyzer to perform automated trade studies on intercept engagements
NOTE: STK/MMT is an ITAR-controlled product. Only U.S. citizens can attend this training.
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
  • 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 maneuvers
  • Configure and use multiple stopping conditions and constraints
  • Configure and use embedded Astrogator sequences

COST: $3,600.00
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 course is managed and instructed by Applied Defense Solutions, Inc. (ADS) and Space Exploration Engineering Corporation. (SEE). The instructors have more than 15 years of experience in the areas of STK/Astrogator development, testing, and instruction.

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 analyze results with reporting and graphing tools
Enhancing a scenario with real-world constraints
Viewing a scenario in 3D using STK/Advanced Visualization Option
Special note: All attendees will receive a complimentary voucher toward one free STK Certification Test ($495 value), as well as their own personal copy of Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics ($75 value)!

Course Outline:
  Day One: Understanding Space Part I
Day Two: Understanding Space Part II
Day Three: Understanding Space Using STK

COST: $1,595.00
DURATION: Three Days
RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES: None

"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 analyze 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
Customer/Private Training

If our standard training courses are not offering exactly what you need, AGI can create and deliver custom and private course offerings based on your specifications. Custom and/or private training courses typically include the creation of relevant courseware and other specialized training aids, and can be held at any of our corporate training locations or at your facility. Contact the AGI training team to learn more.


Contact Info and Directions

Training Phone: 1.800.921.0244
General Phone: 1.800.220.4785 or 1.610.981.8000
E-Mail: agitraining@agi.com
Directions: Available for all locations
Notes: In the event of inclement weather, contact the Training Administrator at 1.610.981.8140 the day of your training for information on cancellations.
Training is intended for qualified aerospace, defense, intelligence, and education professionals.

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