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