SPICE toolbox

All the SPICE calculations in the planetary-coverage are performed using the spiceypy Python package (see Annex et al. (2020) for details) which is mainly a wrapper around the C-SPICE toolkit developed by JPL/NAIF.

This toolbox aims at providing an additional layer of abstraction on top of spiceypy to simplify the usage of the SPICE functions:

• SPICE Pool
  • Add and remove kernels to the pool
  • Get values from pool
  • Kernels temporal coverage
  • Enable pool debugger
• SPICE References
  • Generic SpiceRef properties
  • SpiceBody properties
  • SpiceSpacecraft properties
  • SpiceInstrument properties
  • SpiceFrame properties
  • Planetocentric vs. planetocentric coordinates
    • Planetocentric coordinates
    • Planetographic coordinates
    • Planetographic to Planetocentric coordinates.
• SPICE aberration corrections
• SPICE download CLI
  • Kernel download CLI
  • Metakernel download CLI