TRACE is a high-precision orbit determination and orbit propagation program. It was developed by The Aerospace Corporation in

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. An early version ran on the IBM 7090 computer in 1964. The Fortran source code can be compiled for any platform with a Fortran compiler. When Satellite Tool Kit's high-precision orbit propagator and parameter and coordinate frame transformations underwent an

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effort in 2000, TRACE v2.4.9 was the standard against which STK was compared. As of 2013, TRACE is still used by the U.S. Government and some of its technical contractors.

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