PRIDE: Planetary Radio-Interferometry Delay Estimator

Installation

git clone https://github.com/alfonsoSR/pride.git
cd pride
pip3 install .

Usage

PRIDE will be updated with a command line interface in the near future. For the time being, the easiest way to use it is to take the code in examples/main.py as reference, and perform the following modifications in the Experiment section of examples/config.yaml:

• Set vex to the path to your VEX file
• Set target to a name of your target that can be recognized by SPICE
• Set output_directory to the path of your desired output directory. It will be created if it does not exist.

That's it! If you now run examples/main.py you will get the .del files in your chosen output directory.

Example

You can find an example application under examples. You should be able to run the program main.py to calculate the delays for the GR035 experiment. Binary output files will be saved to examples/output-gr035. You can use the script examine_results.py to plot the delays in these files.

The first time you run the program it will take a little bit because it has to download kernels and data files. If you already have the data files and kernels available, the execution should take about 3 minutes.

If you want to turn off the DEBUG logs, you can set the log level to INFO in main.py

Credit

• Original author: Dimitry Duev
• Original Python 3 Version: Guifre Molera
• 2025 Version & Current Maintainer: Alfonso Sánchez Rodríguez