[Satellite TODAY 11-03-11] Wireless technology solutions developer Elektrobit has entered into a partnership with Analytical Graphics (AGI) to access its STK software in order to model complex communication scenarios for satellite, airborne and terrestrial services, Elektrobit announced Nov. 2.

   Elektrobit said the STK software aims to allow users, including UAVs and missile defense and electronic systems, to export data files. The solution incorporates Elektrobit’s EB Propsim F8 radio channel emulator for utilization in mission planning trials and for predicting system performance with real radio equipment hooked.

   AGI also will use the EB Propism solution to provide direct access to satellite orbit data and a variety of other modeling and analysis tools to plan scenarios for real time testing.

   “This makes the test case planning much faster and more realistic and concrete than ever before. The benefit of turning software simulations into test cases with real radios is visibility to implementation quality. This enables verification of how the real radios and network will perform in algorithm and hardware implementation,’ Elektrobit said in a company statement.