SPICE N65 Released
JPL just released a new version of the SPICE Toolkit (N65). According to the What's New page, changes include:
- support for some new environments and termination of some old environments
- new Geometry Finder (GF) interfaces -- illumination angle search, phase angle search, user-defined binary quantity search
- new high-level SPK APIs allowing one to specify the observer or target as a location with a constant position and velocity rather than as an ephemeris object
- new high-level APIs that check for occultation and in-Field-Of-View (FOV) conditions
- new high-level illumination angle routines
- new high-level reference frame transformation routine
- new high-level coordinate system transformation routine for states
- many Icy and Mice APIs that were formerly available only in SPICELIB and CSPICE
- new data types: SPK (19, 20, 21), PCK (20), and CK (6)
- performance improvements in the range of 10-50 percent for some types of use
- ability to load up to 5000 kernels
- increased buffers in the POOL and in SPK and CK segment search subsystems
- new built-in body name/ID code mappings and body-fixed reference frames
- a significant upgrade of utility SPKDIFF including the ability to sample SPK data
- updates to other toolkit utilities -- BRIEF, CKBRIEF, FRMDIFF, MKSPK, MSOPCK
- bug fixes in Toolkit and utility programs