Required Reading

Main Page SPICE User's Guides
• brief - User's Guide for BRIEF, a utility program that allows you to summarize the contents and coverage for one or more binary SPK or binary PCK files.
• chronos - User's Guide for CHRONOS, a utility program for easy conversion between several time systems and time formats.
• ckbrief - User's Guide for CKBRIEF, a utility program that summarizes the pointing coverage for one or more CK files.
• commnt - User's Guide for COMMNT, a utility program that is used to add comments, extract comments, read comments, or delete comments in SPICE SPK, CK and EK files.
• convert - This document describes issues related to moving SPICE binary data files from one computing environment to another. It also serves as the User's Guide for utility programs performing conversions required in this process -- TOBIN, TOXFR, and SPACIT.
• frmdiff - User's Guide for FRMDIFF, a program that samples orientation of a reference frame known to SPICE or computes differences between orientations of two reference frames known to SPICE, and either displays this orientation or these differences, or shows statistics about it or them.
• inspekt - User's Guide for INSPEKT, a program that allows you to examine the contents of an events component of an E-kernel.
• mkspk - User's Guide for MKSPK, a program that creates SPK files from a reasonably general text file.
• msopck - User's Guide for MSOPCK, a program that converts telemetry quaternions and angular velocity information into a type 1, 2, or 3 SPICE c-kernel.
• simple - User's Guide for SIMPLE, a cookbook program that demonstrates how to use SPICELIB routines to obtain state vectors.
• spacit - User's Guide for SPACIT, an interactive utility program that performs three functions: it converts transfer format SPK, CK and EK files to binary format, it converts binary SPK, CK and EK files to transfer format, and it summarizes the contents of binary SPK, CK and EK files.
• spkdiff - User's Guide for SPKDIFF, a program computing differences between geometric states obtained from two SPK files and either displaying these differences or showing statistics about them.
• spkmerge - User's Guide for SPKMERGE, a utility program that is used to subset or merge one or more SPK files into a single SPK file.
• states - User's Guide for STATES, a cookbook program that demonstrates how to use SPICELIB routines to obtain state vectors.
• subpt - User's Guide for SUBPT, a cookbook program that demonstrates how to use SPICELIB routines to compute sub-spacecraft point.
• tictoc - User's Guide for TICTOC, a cookbook program that demonstrates how to use SPICELIB routines to convert between different time representations.
• tobin - User's Guide for TOBIN, a command line utility program that converts transfer format SPK, CK and EK files to binary format.
• toxfr - User's Guide for TOXFR, a command line utility program that converts binary format SPK, CK and EK files to transfer format.
• version - User's Guide for VERSION, a command line utility program that prints the current version number of the SPICE Toolkit.