Astrogator FAQs

Output NUE Coordinate Data in Reference to Aircraft Starting Point

• Oct 22, 2015
• FAQ

This article provides instructions on how to create a NUE (North-Up-East) coordinate frame attached to an aircraft body and output position,...

How to Fix STK 12.7 Hanging when Opening a File Selector in Windows 11

• Jul 26, 2023
• FAQ

This article addresses an issue identified with running STK 12.7 on Windows 11 machines.

Create Licensing Diagnostic Information

• Mar 10, 2017
• FAQ

This article provides instructions for using the environment variable FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS to receive diagnostic information about STK licensing....

Error "Component FM20.dll or one of its dependencies missing or invalid"

• Apr 12, 2016
• FAQ

This article explains what to do if you are getting the error "Component FM20.dll or one of its dependencies missing or invalid" when trying to run...

Who is Using My STK Network Licenses?

• Jun 25, 2015
• FAQ

How to Add External Data to a 3D Graphics Window

• Feb 1, 2016
• FAQ

This article explains how to visualize time-ordered data from non-STK sources in the 3D Graphics window.

Why Do I Get an 'Error 1327' Message When Trying to Install STK?

• Dec 8, 2015
• FAQ

Here is a summary of steps to solve an error 1327 message when installing STK.

STK Install Error on Mac OS

• Nov 14, 2018
• FAQ

This article explains what to do when you get an error while installing STK on MacOS using Parallels.

How Do I Improve the Visualization of GEO Satellite Orbits?

• Apr 13, 2016
• FAQ

There are several ways to improve the visualization of a GEO satellite compared to default visualization settings.

Why Did STK Miss an Access?

• Feb 5, 2016
• FAQ

Sometimes you can graphically see what should be an access, but STK doesn’t report it. Here are ways to resolve this situation.

Star Catalogs in STK

• Aug 11, 2017
• FAQ

How to Improve the Sky in Ground-based Scenarios

• Mar 29, 2016
• FAQ

The sky in STK is very plain. This article includes two models and describes how they improve the look of the sky by using a model file.

Reporting Atmospheric Drag Values

• Jan 18, 2016
• FAQ

How do you get a report or graph of the atmospheric drag values from STK?

Can I use the values from a Two-Line Element set (TLE) with STK's other propagators (Two Body, J2, HPOP)?

• May 28, 2015
• FAQ

TLEs can only be used with the SGP4 propagator.

UI Plugin mouse events

• Dec 2, 2016
• FAQ

Description of the IAgUiPlugin3DNotify interface for UI Plugins

How Do You Change the STK Default Objects?

• Apr 27, 2016
• FAQ

These simple instructions show you how to create your own default object values in STK.

STK Christmas Special

• Dec 15, 2017
• How To

This year, AGI is using a predicted flight path in STK to show you when you can see Santa from your front porch, so join the training session to...

Create and Display Time Interval Results from a CAT Analysis in the Timeline View

• Jan 14, 2020
• How To

This article describes how to create a custom time interval list to store all the computed close approach intervals from the CAT tool and then...

How to Setup a High Fidelity Aviator Performance Model

• Apr 1, 2019
• How To

There are a lot of places to tweak an aircraft performance model in aviator. This How-To breaks down the different steps.

Operator's Toolbox Training

• Mar 11, 2022
• How To

Here are some tutorial lessons to help you come up to speed quickly on many Operator's Toolbox utilities.