This is a very important report that gives intervals and durations of when an object is in Sunlight.  This is most important for Solar Panels and power generation on most spacecraft.  This report can be used easily for a 'Power Budget' by Exporting a CSV from STK and Importing a CSV in a spreadsheet. 

This lesson covers the basics of creating an area of interest and accessing a report that allows the user to see how much of that area is scanned by a chosen object.  This is a powerful tool to analyse how much of a target is seen by a scanner.

This lesson shows how to check signal strength from one object to another.  Specifically, these objects are a Transmitter and a Receiver.  Link Budget will calculate how strong the signal is between these two objects based on their Power Ratings (EIRP) and separation distance (among other factors).  This allows the user to check for lost messages that are too weak to be safely received and recorded.

This lesson shows how to group a series of objects to act as a unified group.  This can be extremely useful for setting up group functions that are independent of any specific member of that group.  A good example is a 'relay satellite constellation' in which several satellites CAN be used to bounce a signal from one object to another.  Often it does not matter if ONE SPECIFIC or ALL satellites can replay, but only matters that ANY of them can at a given time.  Constellations allow the computer to ignore the limits of ONE satellite and check to see if ANY member of the GROUP (Constellation) can achieve the task.

Chains are powerful tools that allow the user to set up a series of conditions that must be met in order for values to be presented.  This is commonly used for real-time communication between targets and most powerful for communications that relay from several objects.