Accessing an Aircraft, City, Facility, Satellite, or Star Database

STK provides tools that assist you with quickly creating facilities, satellites, places, targets and stars with accurate position and other properties. Several comprehensive databases are shipped with STK for your use. The satellite, city, facility and star databases are available to all users. These databases contain information about thousands of facilities, cities, satellites and stars. Using the databases, you can easily identify an object and insert it into a scenario.

Online Data

Satellites, aircraft, and facilities can be created from a Standard Object Database - an online catalog service with a flexible search engine that allows you to select from among a wide array of objects by searching on the data within the objects files.

Local Data

In addition to the online databases, you can create objects from locally installed databases of facilities, cities, satellites, and stars.

Facility and City Databases

The Facility Database and City Database provide accurate position information for a large number of ground stations and cities around the world. Convenient search categories are provided, together with the option to search within specified latitude and longitude bounds.

Satellite Database

The Satellite Database is a collection of database files that cover more than 8000 orbiting objects that are tracked by the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). Several convenient search categories are available, including SSC number, international number and mission, and you can use apogee and perigee limits to search the database.

Star Database

The Star Database contains many thousands to millions of stars from various star catalogs together with information about star catalog numbers, magnitude, proper motion and parallax. Available search categories include catalog IDs, astrometric parameters, constellation, and common name.