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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">NAIF offers a SPICE newsletter:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <a href="https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/SPICE_News_Jan_2018.pdf">
https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/SPICE_News_Jan_2018.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The set of on-line SPICE tutorials has been updated. These latest versions have “January 2018” on the cover page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> PDF versions: <a href="https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/tutorials.html">
https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/tutorials.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> Office versions: <a href="https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/Tutorials/office/">
https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/Tutorials/office/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">NAIF hopes to be able to work with NASA to be able to provide support–if and where needed/wanted–for upcoming CubeSat and SmallSat missions. If you are associated with one of these missions and think that
some NAIF help with training for, deploying, maybe even operating, a SPICE capability should be considered, we’d be interested in hearing from you. (No arm twisting here, and no commitment for having asked about possibilities.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">We’re always interested to hear of new and novel uses of SPICE; we know we’re unaware of many such uses. Drop us a line about your project, tool or research!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">If you have SPICE data or code you’d like to share with others, or if you have a SPICE-related question you wish to pose to the user community (as opposed to just to NAIF), make use of the spice_discussion
Mailman system:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <a href="https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/spice_discussion">
https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/spice_discussion</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> -----------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">With the backing of NASA and local program management, NAIF looks forward to continuing its support of the space science community in 2018 and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">For the NAIF Team,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> charles.acton (at) jpl.nasa.gov<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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