nasa / pyDownlinkParser

pyDownLinkParser

This library parses binary files containing CCSDS packets of various structures (APID) and distribute them in pandas dataframes.

It is modular and configurable for multiple missions, but is being primarily developed for Europa-Clipper.

Usage

Install:

pip install pydownlinkparser

Use

parse-downlink --file {your ccsds file}

See more options with:

parse-downlink --help

Developers

Requirements

Python 3.9

Create a virtual environment

For example in command line:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install CCSDSPy

To install the latest version of CCSDSPy:

pip install git+https://github.com/CCSDSPy/ccsdspy.git

Deploy the project, for developers

Clone the repository

Install the package

pip install -e '.[dev]'
pre-commit install && pre-commit install -t pre-push

Run an example:

python src/pydownlinkparser/downlink_to_excel.py

or

parse-downlink --help

or

parse-downlink --file ./data/ecm_mag_testcase6_cmds_split_out.log --bdsem --header

Acknowledgment

This package heavily relies on ccsdspy library (see https://github.com/CCSDSPy/ccsdspy).