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Re: Bug#841104: ITP: cspice -- C implementation of The SPICE Toolkit



Rock Storm <rockstorm@gmx.com> writes:
> SPICE has become the de facto standard for handling much of the so-called
> observation geometry information on NASA's planetary missions, and it is now
> widely used in support of science data analysis on planetary missions of other
> space agencies as well. Some SPICE capabilities are used on a variety of
> astrophysics and solar physics missions, such as JAXA's Hayabusa project,
> ESA's Rosetta or NASA's Steins.
>
> I would like this package to be maintained either by the Debian Astro team or,
> if it were outside its scope, the Debian Science team.

Probably it is time to create some "satellite/spacecraft navigation"
section in Debian Astro.

GPredict would also fit there.

I have however no knowledge on this topic at all. Could someone provide
a good name and description for it? Or a better subsection?

Best regards

Ole


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