spice_manager

Program to deal with NAIF SPICE kernels for Solar Orbiter (see https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/spice/solar_orbiter for more details).

spice_manager relies on the spiceypy Python package (https://pypi.org/project/spiceypy/).

Quickstart

To install package using pip:

pip install spice_manager --extra-index-url https://__token__:<your_personal_token>@gitlab.obspm.fr/api/v4/projects/2052/packages/pypi/simple --trusted-host gitlab.obspm.fr

To install package from source files:

git clone https://gitlab.obspm.fr/rpw/spice_manager.git

Then install using pip:

cd spice_manager
pip install .

or using poetry:

cd spice_manager
pip install poetry
poetry install

User guide

Package modules can be then imported into codes with line import spice_manager.

Especially spice_manager.SpiceManager class contains methods to handle SPICE Kernels and some time conversions.

Authors

• xavier dot bonnin at obspm dot fr