SPICE (heliopy.spice
)¶
A module for loading SPICE kernels.
Overview¶
SPICE is a NASA toolkit for calculating the position of bodies (including planets and spacecraft) within the solar system. This module builds on the spiceypy package to provide a high level interface to the SPICE toolkit for performing orbital calculations using spice kernels.
Integration with astropy.coordinates
¶
As well as allowing positions to be calculated in any coordinate system defined
in the SPICE toolkit, heliopy.spice
can also construct
astropy.coordinates.SkyCoord
objects if the frame is implemented in
astropy or SunPy. See the documentaiton of
heliopy.spice.Trajectory.coords()
for information on which frames are
supported.
Classes¶
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A class for a single body. |
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Class for a single kernel. |
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A class for a single .spk kernel. |
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A class for the trajectory of a single body. |