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Bug#1078690: ITP: naif-cspice -- The NAIF CSPICE Toolkit and library by NASA




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* Package name:  naif-cspice

  Version: 1.67 (N0067 upstream)

  Upstream Author: NASA NAIF (Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility)

* URL: https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit.html

* License: Apache 2.0

  Programming Lang: C

  Description:  The NAIF CSPICE Toolkit and library by NASA


The NAIF CSPICE Toolkit, together with data obtained from the JPL Horizons system, is commonly used for obtaining precise orbital data for planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. It can provide precise positions, velocities, orientation, and in some cases shape information on the above mentions orbiting bodies.

The Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF), acting under the directions of NASA's Planetary Science Division, has built an information system named "SPICE" (Spacecraft, Planet, Instrument, C-matrix, Events) to assist NASA scientists in planning and interpreting scientific observations from space-borne instruments, and to assist NASA engineers involved in modeling, planning and executing activities needed to conduct planetary exploration missions.

(The upstream package has some licensing exceptions that apply only to the unmodified package distributed by NAIF, but the packaged (hence modified) version is entirely free from these exceptions, and can be published with a vanilla Apache 2.0 license).

It will maintained within the Debian Astronomy Working Group. A git
repository will be created on salsa:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-astro-team/drms.git

cheers,

-- Attila


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