Let me introduce the creator of this ground-breaking remote training application, David Cooke. As I said, he's a retired RCAF combat flying instructor In both NATO and NORAD but he was also a programmer in the late 1970s, when he was a satellite analyst and staff officer attached to U S air force space command in the early 1980s. That's when he produced the first commercial Satellite Tracking program for micro-computers, called SATTRAK. His Company SATTRAK International, was the first-to-market with this PC based software suite capable of predicting and tracking any satellite, for any time, past present or future, from any location on earth. By 1982 it sold in over 16 countries and territories around the world. After 25 years as a pilot in the RCAF, serving in both NATO and NORAD he retired from his last operational command as Chief of Space Surveillance Division, US Air Force Space Command. He joined Spar Aerospace and the Canadian Space Station Program as their Assistant Program Manager of Operations, managing 4 teams of engineers responsible for Space Ops, Ground Ops, training and logistics support for the Canadian Space Station Program. He even rewrote most of the Program Plan & Manufacturing Schedule in 1994, that won spar the 1.4 billion dollar build program for the Remote Manipulator System you see here on the International Space Station. In 1995, he also managed 2 R-n-D projects at SPAR, the _IMPS program and _CATS. _IMPS was the Interactive Medical Procedures Simulator and _CATS, was the Computer Assisted Training System. _CATS was designed to bring astronauts together virtually at spar, for joint training. _CATS allowed multiple video conferencing feeds to be assembled on a single Macintosh screen with a chat function very much like zoom. and that, was almost 20 years "before" Eric Yuan launched Zoom-Video in January 2013. That explains a lot of where the RmTP Studio and 3D Airmanship comes from and why this relationship between CANDA and ITPS is so powerful.

RmTP Origins