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STK Pro, Premium & Enterprise

Written by Drew Latta | May 29, 2026 6:50:20 PM

Legacy Product Mapping: in STK 12.3, Ansys bundled the STK capabilities into four products with 3 additional specialized modules. These new products include STK Pro, STK Premium Space/Air and STK Enterprise. Here is the mapping from the legacy license names to current license bundles.

STK Systems Tool Kit Family

The STK product line is structured in tiers, with each tier including the capabilities of the tiers below it.

 

STK Pro (Baseline)

STK Pro provides the core modeling, visualization, and analysis environment used for aerospace, defense, and space mission engineering.

Visualization

  • Advanced 2D and 3D visualization

Modeling

  • Customizable and interoperable models
    • Sensors
    • Communications
    • Radar Systems
    • Optical Sensors

Analysis

  • Line of Sight
  • Multi-Hop Links
  • Complex Links
  • Geometry
  • Time
  • Spatial Analysis

 

STK Premium (Air or Space)

Includes all STK Pro capabilities

Adds advanced analysis and domain-specific capabilities for either Air or Space applications.

Customers select either the Premium Air or Premium Space capability set depending on their mission requirements.

Premium Capabilities for Both Air and Space

  • Advanced Electro-Optical / Infrared (EO/IR) analysis
  • Specific and limited real-time data feeds

Air Specific Capabilities

  • Aircraft performance profiles for highly accurate flight profiles (Aviator)
  • Performance profiles for:
    • Missiles
    • Hypersonic vehicles
    • Rotorcraft

Space Specifc Capabilities

  • Spacecraft trajectory design (Astrogator)
  • Space environment models
  • Conjunction assessment
  • Trajectory design for spacecraft in all orbital regimes

 

STK Enterprise

Includes all STK Premium and STK Pro capabilities

Enterprise Capabilities

  • Test and evaluation-specific capabilities focused on aircraft testing
  • Behavior Engine
    • Supports applications in Cameo and SysML

There are license dependencies STK and Specialized Modules/Plugins.

License Dependency
STK Pro None: This is the baseline capabilities
STK Premium None: STK Premium includes STK Pro capabilities

 

STK Enterprise None: STK Enterprise includes STK Pro, STK Premium Air and Space capabilities
STK Scheduler STK Pro
STK SOLIS STK Pro
MTK STK Pro
ODTK

None: This is the baseline capabilities

ODSSA

ODTK

Note: A more detailed and up-to-date list can be found on the Ansys website.

Knowledge: What License Dependencies are There for STK Modules, ODTK, SSA products, and Components Libraries? (site.com)

Thanks,

Blacknight Space Team