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. Your STK installation package includes several comprehensive databases 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

You can create satellites, aircraft, and facilities from a Standard Object Database, which is an online catalog service with a flexible search engine that enables you to select from among a wide array of objects by searching 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.

For more information on facility database files, refer to the Facility Database Format page. You can see source information in the Operator List file (C:\ProgramData\AGI\STK 12\Databases\Facility\Operator List.txt).

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 Search provides access to star catalogs with many thousands to millions of stars, together with information about star catalog numbers, magnitude, proper motion, and parallax. Available search categories include catalog IDs, astrometric parameters, constellation, and common name.