In this video, Matt looks at the 3 fundamental building blocks of SPICE programs : time, frames, and kernels.

Open Planetary's 'Intro to SPICE' series covers the absolute basics of NASA/NAIF's SPICE Toolkit, and whilst it won't cover everything, it will give you a head start when it comes to writing your own SPICE programs.

A Jupyter Notebook for this lesson can be found in the following GIT repo : github.com/openplanetary/op-tutorials/tree/master/intro_to_spice

For more information on any of the topics covered : SPICE : naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit.html SPICE Docs : naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/C/index.html SPICEYPY : spiceypy.readthedocs.io ESA SPICE Service : www.youtube.com/channel/UCF6alqP4Y6xopb3-6ZReLvQ

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