›› 2009, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (2): 61-64.

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Design of STK-Based Realtime Visualization Simulation System for Satellites

DU Yaoke   

  1. Shanghai Aerospace Control Engineering Institute, Shanghai 200233, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2009-04-25 Published:2009-04-25

Abstract: Visualization simulation of satellite orbiting the earth can display the satellite’s orbit and attitude motion intuitionisticly and really. The STK is an important tool for satellite simulation and analysis. It can display 2D and 3D graphics of the satellite. This paper studies the core technique of STK/Connect, makes use of the windows sockets and multi-threads programming technology, and develops the drive program for STK realtime visualization simulation. This drive program receives the data from the telemetry simulator computer according to the UDP protocal, then drives the STK runing through communicatting with the STK’s connect module. Results show that the drive program can realize the realtime simulation for satellites.

Key words: visualization simulation, STK, multi-threads, satellite

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  • V4