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I was searching today and saw that a couple years ago there was talk of adding SPICE compatability into celestia, but couldnt find anything about whether or not it was actually done.

Anyone have any information on this topic?

thanks

disc0stu wrote:I was searching today and saw that a couple years ago there was talk of adding SPICE compatability into celestia, but couldnt find anything about whether or not it was actually done.

Anyone have any information on this topic?

thanks

Could you become more specific? Since ~20 years I know SPICE as an electronic circuit simulator from Univ. Berkeley. It exists for a number of plaforms.

But this does not make sense at all together with Celestia. So you see, getting more precise will probably help...which OS?

Bye Fridger

By SPICE I mean JPL SPICE kernels

t00fri wrote:

disc0stu wrote:I was searching today and saw that a couple years ago there was talk of adding SPICE compatability into celestia, but couldnt find anything about whether or not it was actually done.

Anyone have any information on this topic?

thanks

Could you become more specific? Since ~20 years I know SPICE as an electronic circuit simulator from Univ. Berkeley. It exists for a number of plaforms.

But this does not make sense at all together with Celestia. So you see, getting more precise will probably help...which OS?

Bye Fridger

I believe in this context SPICE refers to the software and data format NASA uses to specify the motions of its spacecraft and their targets. Despite the earlier talk, Celestia can't currently use SPICE files directly.

- Hank

hank wrote:...
I believe in this context SPICE refers to the software and data format NASA uses to specify the motions of its spacecraft and their targets. Despite the earlier talk, Celestia can't currently use SPICE files directly.

- Hank

Oh thanks Hank,

of course I remember now. But since I did some coding myself for years with the electronic SPICE, it was naturally in the foreground

Bye Fridger

hank wrote:
Despite the earlier talk, Celestia can't currently use SPICE files directly.

- Hank

How about indirectly? Any ideas on how that could be done or whether or not anyone has developed anything to convert from SPICE into something Celestia can work with?

disc0stu wrote:

hank wrote:
Despite the earlier talk, Celestia can't currently use SPICE files directly.

- Hank

How about indirectly? Any ideas on how that could be done or whether or not anyone has developed anything to convert from SPICE into something Celestia can work with?

Can you be more specific about what you want to get out of using SPICE? (As opposed to using JPL's HORIZONS system, for example?)

- Hank