Sean Champ's List: GProject Bluesky

• an information system named "SPICE"
• The use of SPICE extends from mission concept development through the   post-mission data analysis phase
• SPICE kernels are composed of navigation   and other ancillary information
• The primary SPICE data sets are often called "kernels"   or "kernel files."
• SPICE kernel   file contents are summarized below.
• (SPK)
• Under development is a digital shape model kernel (DSK) for both small,   irregularly shaped bodies such as asteroids and comet nuclei, and for large, more uniformly shaped bodies such as the moon, earth and Mars.
• The SPICE system includes the SPICE Toolkit
• a library   of portable APIs (subroutines) needed to read the kernel files and to then calculate   observation geometry parameters, also known as derived data of interest—items such as range, LAT/LON, and lighting angles.
• Users integrate a few   SPICE Toolkit APIs into their own application   programs to compute observation geometry parameters or geometric events as needed.
• originally   implemented in ANSI FORTRAN 77, but is now available in C, IDL and MATLAB as well
• the NAIF Group serves as the "Navigation Node" of NASA's   Planetary Data System.

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• someone just claimed to have clisp working at least. Archived here:  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general/21242
• Lemonodor long ago had a picture of CLISP running on a N770, which is a couple generations back but essentially the same OS.
• he ARM (processor) debian package for CLISP didn't work the last time I tried it, because of some twiddly library dependencies, but if you spent some time recompiling you'd likely be fine.
• Scratchbox emulator
• so you could fire that up on a PC and try before you buy.
• http://lemonodor.com/archives/2007/03/clisp_on_a_nokia_n800.html

  • nullDead link -- 2013-02-09
    See
    http://wayback.archive.org/web/20101125110448/http://lemonodor.com/archives/2007/03/clisp_on_a_nokia_n800.html -- 2013-02-09
    It's CLISP ... -- 2013-02-09
    
• It's the Nokia 800, actually, which is only one generation ago.
• beware apple's "hilarious" iphone SDK licensing terms (no idea how enforceable they are): http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/03/has-apple-banne.html

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