KPL/SCLK TEST SPICE SCLK Kernel -------------------------------------------------------- This file contains the data necessary for converting from ET to ticks for the fictional spacecraft clock having id code 41. It is produced by the utility program predickt. This SCLK kernel is intended to be used with the test CK file with structure IDs listed below on board the spacecraft -41. This fictional clock begins at 2000-JAN-01-00:00:00.000 ET and continues for 1 billion seconds. The clock has a granularity of 0.1 milliseconds. This is intended for study purposes or for those situations in which a clock is not available for the structure whose orientation will be modelled by a C-kernel. If you have any questions about this file that these comments don't answer, contact Bill Taber at NAIF. (818) 354-8136 bsemenov@spice.jpl.nasa.gov Implementation notes -------------------------------------------------------- This SCLK file is constructed so that the valid SCLK strings are simply the number of TDB seconds that have passed since the Ephemeris epoch 2003-JAN-01-00:00:00.000. Thus 1/ 288929292.8201 simply represents the epoch that occurs 288929292.8201 TDB seconds past the ET epoch 2003-JAN-01-00:00:00.000. For all time, the clock runs at the same rate as TDB. There is only one partition for this clock. You must load this file into the kernel pool before using any of the SPICELIB SCLK routines. The code fragment CALL FURNSH ( < name of this file > ) performs this task. To convert between ET and UTC, you will also need to load a leapseconds kernel. The additional call to LDPOOL, CALL FURNSH ( < name of your leapsecond file > ) will accomplish this. Note that you must supply the actual names of the files used on your system as arguments to LDPOOL. Because the file names are system dependent, we do not list them here. For more information, consult your SPICELIB required reading files. The following areas are covered: SCLK system SCLK required reading Time systems and conversion TIME required reading Kernel pool KERNEL required reading Kernel data -------------------------------------------------------- \begindata SCLK_KERNEL_ID = ( @14-JUN-2001 ) SCLK_DATA_TYPE_41 = ( 1 ) SCLK01_TIME_SYSTEM_41 = ( 1 ) SCLK01_N_FIELDS_41 = ( 2 ) SCLK01_MODULI_41 = ( 1000000000 10000 ) SCLK01_OFFSETS_41 = ( 0 0 ) SCLK01_OUTPUT_DELIM_41 = ( 1 ) SCLK_PARTITION_START_41 = ( 0.0000000000000E+00 ) SCLK_PARTITION_END_41 = ( 1.00000000E+14 ) SCLK01_COEFFICIENTS_41 = ( 0.00000000E+00 @2003-JAN-01-00:00:00.000 1 ) CK_-41000_SCLK = -41 CK_-41000_SPK = -41 \begintext