NAIF with the ESA SPICE Service (ESS) announce that the next SPICE training in Europe will be held on April 17-21, 2023 at the European Space and Astronomy Center (ESAC/ESA), Villanueva de la Canada, Madrid, Spain. For more details about the class, please see the ESS SPICE Training site. To sign up for the class, please use the class registration form.

SPICE taining classes are free of charge, but students must pay for all travel, lodging and per diem costs. Attendance is generally open to all, but may be limited according to room size or for other reasons.

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It may be possible to hold classes elsewhere, with support from the host and with NASA approval. If you are interested in SPICE training classes you might talk to your space agency's management about hosting a local training class.

Self Training

Self training is another option you might consider. This option makes use of the same tutorials and lessons used in the live training classes. The programming lessons contain helpful tips and drawings, and all needed data. They also contain the code "solutions" and expected numeric results. So this really is a viable second choice.

No Video Training

Because of the importance of the hands-on programming lessons that are part of the SPICE training, NAIF does not offer recoded (e.g. YouTube) training.