# \[ANN\] SPICE.jl: A wrapper for NASA‘s SPICE toolkit
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-spice-jl-a-wrapper-for-nasa-s-spice-toolkit/23381
**Category:** Astro/Space
**Tags:** announcement
**Created:** [April 21, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-spice-jl-a-wrapper-for-nasa-s-spice-toolkit/23381 "2019-04-21T20:09:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-spice-jl-a-wrapper-for-nasa-s-spice-toolkit/23381/1 "2019-04-21T20:09:13Z")
Hi y‘all,
Finally I am happy to announce the [SPICE.jl](https://github.com/JuliaAstro/SPICE.jl) wrapper for the [SPICE toolkit](https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/index.html) which is provided by NASA’s Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) and provides functionality to read SPICE data files and compute derived observation geometry such as altitude, latitude/longitude and lighting angles (not to be confused with the analog circuit simulator of the same name).
SPICE.jl wraps most of the 500+ functions in the toolkit (apart from those already covered by the standard library or easy one-liners).
My thanks to all contributors and Andrew Annex whose Python wrapper [SpiceyPy](https://github.com/AndrewAnnex/SpiceyPy) served as inspiration.
🎉
---
### Author:  [@crbinz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/crbinz)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-spice-jl-a-wrapper-for-nasa-s-spice-toolkit/23381/2 "2019-04-21T23:01:03Z")
Awesome, this will be hugely useful. Thanks for putting in the effort to do this.
---
### Author:  [@crbinz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/crbinz)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-spice-jl-a-wrapper-for-nasa-s-spice-toolkit/23381/3 "2019-04-23T02:33:05Z")
I wonder if you could get this added [here](https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/links.html)? The site manager is listed at the bottom of that page.
---
### Author:  [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-spice-jl-a-wrapper-for-nasa-s-spice-toolkit/23381/4 "2019-04-23T06:01:08Z")
Good idea! I made an announcement on their mailing list as well. Let’s see what happens…
---
### Author:  [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-spice-jl-a-wrapper-for-nasa-s-spice-toolkit/23381/5 "2019-04-23T17:56:07Z")
---
### Author:  [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-spice-jl-a-wrapper-for-nasa-s-spice-toolkit/23381/6 "2020-08-03T17:01:37Z")
I have published SPICE.jl 0.2.0 which uses a fancy new CSPICE\_jll package 🎉
---
### Author:  [@anon92994695](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon92994695)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-spice-jl-a-wrapper-for-nasa-s-spice-toolkit/23381/7 "2020-08-04T02:27:31Z")
awesome! How massive of an effort would it be to do a pure Julia SPICE?
---
### Author:  [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2020, 6:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-spice-jl-a-wrapper-for-nasa-s-spice-toolkit/23381/8 "2020-08-04T06:32:11Z")
An insane amount of effort 😄
That said, I think that [AstroBase.jl](https://github.com/JuliaAstro/AstroBase.jl) will cover a lot of the same ground that SPICE does once it’s done.