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> used by a ton of missions and spacecraft for determining sun up/down times, pointing angles for heavenly bodies, time and precise keeping, etc etc. Yes. My u
by mturmon 2y ago
> used by a ton of missions and spacecraft for determining sun up/down times, pointing angles for heavenly bodies, time and precise keeping, etc etc.
Yes. My use case was/is determining pointing angles between a telescope at L2 and various nearby stars, to be sure it's not pointing anywhere near a bright body like a planet (around Sol) when it's expected to be observing exoplanets.
There are a lot of diverse use cases!
- krisoft 2y ago:D all of these super cool and highly professional uses of SPICE kernels and here I am using the same thing to point an arrow to where the planets are as a room decoration :D https://www.youtube.com/shorts/32BGeJav2OQ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/32BGeJav2OQ (On the video the mechanism is not using SPICE, just pointing at manually selected alt-az)