From Boris.Semenov at jpl.nasa.gov Fri Aug 5 18:48:30 2022 From: Boris.Semenov at jpl.nasa.gov (Boris Semenov) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 18:48:30 -0700 Subject: [Spice_announce] SPICE Newsletter, August 2022 Message-ID: NAIF offers a SPICE Newsletter https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/SPICE_News_Aug_2022.pdf regarding SPICE development and other NAIF activities. We hope you will share this Newsletter with your colleagues who might be interested in NASA?s SPICE observation geometry system. From Boris.Semenov at jpl.nasa.gov Fri Aug 5 18:48:42 2022 From: Boris.Semenov at jpl.nasa.gov (Boris Semenov) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 18:48:42 -0700 Subject: [Spice_announce] Upcoming SPICE Training Class -- October 25-27, 2022 Message-ID: <73beaf5c-9c7b-2142-1702-f685f16f3fcd@jpl.nasa.gov> NAIF announces the next SPICE training class will take place October 25-27, 2022 near Pasadena, California. The combination of the announcement letter and registration form are available at: https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/WS2022_announcement.html Registration is required, the sooner the better but no later than October 1st. Seating is limited and will be offered in the order in which firm registrations are received. From Boris.Semenov at jpl.nasa.gov Fri Aug 5 18:48:54 2022 From: Boris.Semenov at jpl.nasa.gov (Boris Semenov) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 18:48:54 -0700 Subject: [Spice_announce] No new leap second at the end of December 2022 Message-ID: <6844bd2d-f750-40f2-463d-d45c0ece650d@jpl.nasa.gov> The IERS announced there will NOT be a new leap second declared at midnight on December 31, 2022: https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/16_BULLETIN_C16.txt As a consequence, the current SPICE LSK, naif0012.tls, will remain current until at least July 01, 2023.