Reporting Bugs
In order to report a bug either in this document or the NAIF PDS4 Bundler
software package you can open a issue in the naif-pds4-bundler GitHub
repository Issues section.
Click on the “New issue” button and follow the instructions provided in the issue template.
Contact Information
If you have any questions on any aspect of the generation of a SPICE kernel archive please contact Boris Semenov (Boris.V.Semenov@jpl.nasa.gov)
at the
PDS Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF), MAIL STOP 301-121, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, 91109-8099
WWW Site: https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov
References
Planetary Data System Standards Reference, Version 1.22.0 March 31, 2024, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
PDS Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) SPICE Archive Preparation Guide
PDS Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) Introduction to Kernels Tutorial
PDS Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) MAKLABEL Users’s Guide
Annex et al., (2020). SpiceyPy: a Pythonic Wrapper for the SPICE Toolkit. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(46), 2050, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02050
Utility Programs
The executables and User’s Guides for the following utility programs:
ARCHTYPE BINGO BRIEF CKBRIEF CKSLICER CKSMRG
COMMNT DAFCAT MAKLABEL ORBNUM SPACIT SPKDIFF
SPY BFF FRMDIFF OPTIKS
mentioned in this document are available from the “Utilities” page on the NAIF web site, NAIF Utilities.
Note that for some environments (e.g. Linux, Mac/OSX) these utilities can not be statically linked and require certain shared object libraries in order to run. Usually these libraries can be installed on your computer by installing the compiler used to compile the executables (e.g. gfortran/gcc).
Tutorials
A collection of tutorials covering most aspects of using SPICE kernel files and allied Toolkit software is available from the “Tutorials” page on the NAIF web site, NAIF Tutorials.
SPICE Kernel Archives
SPICE archives are available on the NAIF server either directly, from the FTP-like HTTP page, or from the NAIF Data page.
They may be useful as examples for new archive producers.
PDS Standards
The PDS standards Documents are available on the PDS documents web site, PDS4 web site Data Standards of these the following might be most useful:
Concepts Document
Data Provider’s Handbook
Standard’s Reference
Context Products
PDS Validate Tool
The PDS Validate tool is available at the validate tool website.