Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki SPICE Kernel Archive Bundle

DATA FILE DOWNLOAD

• Directory (DARTS/JAXA)
• tar.xz file (DARTS/JAXA)
• Directory (NAIF/JPL/NASA)

DATA CITATION

Murakami, S., Y. Yamamoto, K. McGouldrick, G. L. Hashimoto, N. Hirata, Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki SPICE Kernel Archive Bundle v3.0, urn:jaxa:darts:vco_spice, JAXA Data Archives and Transmission System, https://doi.org/10.17597/isas.darts/vco-00200, 2024.

IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

• Title: Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki SPICE Kernel Archive Bundle
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17597/isas.darts/vco-00200
• Alternate identifier(s):
  • URN: urn:jaxa:darts:vco_spice

DATASET CREATOR

• Shin-ya Murakami, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7137-4849
• Yukio Yamamoto, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7172-1911
• Kevin McGouldrick, University of Colorado Boulder, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0328-649X
• George L. Hashimoto, Okayama University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3821-6881
• Naru Hirata, The University of Aizu, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2435-604X

DATASET OVERVIEW

Description(s)

Abstract

This bundle includes the complete set of Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO, also known as PLANET-C and AKATSUKI) SPICE data files, i.e., kernel files, for the cruise, the sun orbiting, and the science phase(s) of the mission. The SPICE data files, which can be accessed using SPICE software, contain geometric and other ancillary information needed to recover the full value of the science instrument data. In particular SPICE kernels provide spacecraft and planetary ephemerides, instrument mounting alignments, spacecraft orientation, spacecraft sequences of events, and data needed for relevant time conversions. This bundle is compliant with the PDS4 Standards, and supersedes Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki SPICE Kernel PDS3 dataset which is compliant with the PDS3 Standards.

Resource Type

Dataset, SPICE kernels

Keywords

• Venus Climate Orbiter
• PLANET-C
• Akatsuki
• Spacecraft
• Venus
• Atmosphere
• SPICE
• Orbit of spacecraft
• Attitude of spacecraft
• Planetary Data System
• PDS4

Edition of dataset

• Version: 3.0

Publication Date

2024

Publisher

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Related contents

• Dataset is portion of: Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki Dataset Collection, https://doi.org/10.17597/isas.darts/vco-00000
• Dataset refers: Acton (1996), https://doi.org/10.1016/0032-0633(95)00107-7
• Dataset is a new version of: Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki SPICE Kernel PDS3 dataset, https://doi.org/10.17597/isas.darts/vco-00001

Contributors

• Rights Holder: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
• Distributor: Center for Science-satellite Operation and Data Archive, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
• Distributor: NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility Node (NAIF), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Language used in dataset

en

Geolocation(s)

• Location of ISAS/JAXA
  • Point in Latitude and Longitude: 35.5581756 139.394127
  • Address: Yoshinodai 3-1-1, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
• Location of PDS NAIF node at JPL
  • Point in Latitude and Longitude: 34.2013081 -118.1735831
  • Address: 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

Repository Information

• Data ARchives and Transmission System (DARTS), ISAS/JAXA

DATES OF DATASET

• Issued: 2022-12-01
• Updated: 2023-06-02
• Updated: 2024-02-19

RIGHTS, CREDITS, LICENSES

• ISAS Data Policy
• Government of Japan Standard Terms of Use (Version 2.0)
• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)

DATES OF THIS METADATA

• 2022-12-01: Issued
• 2023-06-02: Updated for v2.0 release.
• 2024-02-19: Updated for v3.0 release.
• 2024-06-17: Added repository information.