This module is used to obtain information such as Mercury's position around the Sun, Carrington longitude etc.

Firstly a few environment variables need setting:

export SPICE_KERNEL_PATH=/path/to/spice/kernels
export SPICE_OUTPUT_PATH=/path/to/output/stuff

Also, some dependencies need installing:

pip3 install spiceypy RecarrayTools PyFileIO numpy scipy DateTimeTools --user

Then we can import the module in Python 3:

import PlanetSpice as ps

where ps currently contains the following submodules:

Sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars