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
.
The latest version of the file can be installed via pip:
pip install naif-de440
import spiceypy as sp
from naif_de440 import de440
sp.furnsh(de440)
This project makes use of data provided and maintained by the Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF).
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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