naif-de440 2020.12.21

NAIF Development Ephemeris (DE) 440 for SPICE

naif_de440: NAIF Development Ephemeris (DE) 440 for SPICE

A Python package by the Asteroid Institute, a program of the B612 Foundation

This package ships the Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility's DE440 kernel.

This is not an official NAIF package. It is an automatically generated mirror of the file so that it is installable via pip.

Installation

The latest version of the file can be install via pip:
pip install naif-de440

Usage

import spiceypy as sp
from naif_de440 import de440

sp.furnsh(de440)

Acknowledgment

This project makes use of data provided and maintained by the Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF).

References

[1] Acton, C.H.; "Ancillary Data Services of NASA's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility;" Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 65-70, 1996. DOI 10.1016/0032-0633(95)00107-7
[2] Charles Acton, Nathaniel Bachman, Boris Semenov, Edward Wright; A look toward the future in the handling of space science mission geometry; Planetary and Space Science (2017); DOI 10.1016/j.pss.2017.02.013