Ansys is a global leader in engineering simulation software, providing solutions for designing, testing, and optimizing space missions and systems. Their software is used across the space industry for applications like spacecraft design, launch system development, mission planning, and risk mitigation, enabling faster and more cost-effective innovation. Key products include Systems Tool Kit (STK) and Orbit Determination Tool Kit (ODTK). Ansys serves a wide range of customers in the space sector, including NASA, ESA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and other government, commercial, and defense organizations. Associated keywords: simulation, digital engineering, aerospace, mission design, structural analysis.
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Ansys expects the AGI transaction will add $75,000,000 to $85,000,000 of non-GAAP revenue to its 2021 results and will be modestly accretive to non-GAAP diluted earnings per share.
The purchase price for AGI is $700 million, of which 67% will be paid in cash and 33% will be paid through the issuance of Ansys common stock.
Ansys is acquiring AGI’s digital engineering and mission software business but is not acquiring the Commercial Space Operations Center (COMSPOC).
Ansys intends to acquire space data services provider Analytical Graphics Inc. for $700,000,000.
The $700,000,000 deal is to be paid two-thirds in cash and one-third through the issuance of Ansys stock.
T.S. Kelso, senior research astrodynamicist at Analytical Graphics Inc., identified four Starlink satellites launched in 2019 with orbits below 200 km.
Analytical Graphics Inc. (AGI) operates the Commercial Space Operations Center, which collects space situational awareness data to provide satellite operators with warnings of potential close approaches or conjunctions between objects in orbit.
T.S. Kelso, senior research astrodynamicist at Analytical Graphics Inc., observed that orbital data for Cosmos-2542 is available from the U.S. Space Force 18th Space Control Squadron while comparable orbital data for USA 245 is not publicly provided by the U.S. government and is being supplied by amateur observers.
Analytical Graphics Inc. (AGI) and Thoth Technology established a commercial radar system capable of tracking objects in geostationary orbit and beyond on 2018-05-23.