padre_craft

A Python package to process and analyze data from spacraft subsystems on the NASA solar PolArization and Directivity X-Ray Experiment (PADRE) small satellite mission.

PADRE launched on July 23rd, 2025.

For information about the PADRE mission, see PADRESat.

Table of Contents:

• Citing
  • Citing in Publications
• User’s Guide
  • Overview
    • Publications and Presentations
  • Orbit module
    • Overview
    • Visualization
  • DirList module
    • Overview
    • The file_list attribute
    • Summarizing files
      • File counts
      • File sizes
      • Available instruments and data types
    • Filtering by instrument
    • Converting to a TimeSeries
  • Logging system
    • Overview
• Developer’s Guide
  • Developer Environment
    • Visual Studio Code
      • Setup
  • Coding Standards
    • Language Standard
    • Coding Style/Conventions
    • Private code
    • Documentation and Testing
    • Data and Configuration
    • Standard output and errors
    • Logging and all other messages
    • Including C Code
  • Testing Guidelines
    • Writing tests
      • Where to put tests
      • doctests
      • Bugs Testing
  • Documentation Rules
    • Overview
      • Referring to other code
      • Project-specific Rules
    • Sphinx
      • Usage and Building the documentation
        • HTML
  • Workflow for Maintainers
    • Integrating changes via the web interface (recommended)
      • When to remove or combine/squash commits
      • When to rebase
      • A few commits
      • A long series of commits
      • Check the history
      • Push to open pull request
    • IOssue Milestones and Labels
    • Updating and Maintaining the Changelog
    • Releases
• API Reference
  • padre_craft
    • print_config()
  • padre_craft.util.util
    • convert_meddea_colnames()
    • create_craft_filename()
    • filename_to_datatype()
    • parse_science_filename()
  • padre_craft.io.file_tools
    • read_file()
    • read_fits()
    • read_raw_file()
  • padre_craft.io.fits_tools
    • add_process_info_to_header()
    • get_bunit()
    • get_comment()
    • get_obs_header()
    • get_prhsh()
    • get_primary_header()
    • get_prlib()
    • get_prproc()
    • get_prpver()
    • get_prstep()
    • get_prver()
  • padre_craft.orbit.orbit
    • PadreOrbit
      • PadreOrbit.calculate()
      • PadreOrbit.plot_geolocation()
      • PadreOrbit.plot_state()
    • get_celestrak_url()
    • get_ephemeris_file()
    • get_latest_tle()
  • padre_craft.io.aws_db
    • record_dirlist()
    • record_housekeeping()
    • record_orbit()